ENACT webinar – Global meets local: new transnational organised crime trends in Africa
On 17 October 2023, ENACT held a webinar to discuss the illegal trade and flow of people, goods and substances throughout Africa and their impact beyond the continent’s borders, as shown by the rise in irregular migration and illicit financial flows into Europe. The European Commission opened the event reaffirming the EU’s commitment to the…
ENACT Seminar– North Africa: Axis for global cigarette trafficking
On 23 November 2022, ENACT hosted a seminar focusing on the cigarette trade, its many illegal flows, and North Africa’s pivotal role in this market. This event profiled new research into this lucrative trade and the North African axis, with the region being a transit, destination and consumer hub for cigarette trafficking by local organised…
ENACT Seminar – Is Africa using the UN’s convention against organised crime?
On 21 October 2022, ENACT organised a side event during the 11th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). The UNTOC is the main international instrument in the fight against transnational crime. With the need to foster international cooperation identified as a requisite to effectively tackle…
ENACT Seminar – Armed Conflict and the Trafficking of Guns and Explosives
On 18 October 2022, ENACT held a side event in the framework of the 11th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNTOC. The panel “Armed conflict and the trafficking of guns and explosives” examined the links between organised crime and firearms trafficking in East and Central Africa, focusing on the drivers and…
ENACT Roundtable – East Africa: frontline for organised crime in Africa
On 30 August 2022, GIFP component ENACT organised an East Africa regional roundtable on trends in the transnational organised crimes programme. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) partners, together with the ENACT implementing partners – the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and INTERPOL – provided an overview of ENACT’s research and analytical work and…
ENACT Seminar – Central Africa: a growing hotspot for organised crime
On 26 July, GIFP component ENACT organised a seminar focusing on Central Africa as a growing hotspot for organised crime. Bringing together partners from ENACT, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, INTERPOL, and the Central African Police Chiefs Committee, the seminar explored organised crime drivers in Central Africa, the factors responsible for low resilience,…
