Africa and the Global Illicit Economy brings you stories and investigations based on the extensive research networks at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
We'll be looking at corruption, illicit financial flows, gangs, the role of foreign corporations, the political economy of crime, and the enabling environment that has made Africa vulnerable to the growth of organized crime.
Drawing on the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime's civil society observatories for North, South, East and West Africa to get a feel for how organized crime is impacting some of the world and the continent’s emergency trends and contemporary events.
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Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Season 2! Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
Mark Shaw, Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, explores investigations into organized crime, including money laundering, the 'Ndrangheta's expansion, and South African mafia investigations, in this interview episode.
16 Sept 2024
TRAILER: Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
Welcome to Underworlds with Mark Shaw.
Organized Crime is everywhere, hidden in plain sight. The stories from this world have been mythologised by Hollywood. But the reality can be even stranger and more exciting than fiction.
From the golden age of the American mafia (La Cosa Nostra), to the modern-day cocaine empires, and from the shadowy links between organized crime and terrorism, to the twilight of the Yakuza.
In this series Mark Shaw, the Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime delves into non-fiction books about organized crime and the illicit economy with the authors themselves. He asks questions about their background and investigations, but also the challenges associated in writing about this murky world.
16 Nov 2022
Organized Crime Risk in South Africa
Organized crime in South Africa threatens the economy, its people and the democratic institutions themselves.
Every day we see a number of different and seemingly unconnected criminal incidents taking place - from assassinations to gang rapes in an illegal mining community; and from the violence of the taxi industry to organized cooper theft.
But what lies behind all of these actions is a dark web, a criminal ecosystem driven by an increasingly violent South African underworld.
In this episode Steph Musho (https://twitter.com/steffmusho) talks to Julian Rademeyer (https://twitter.com/julianrademeyer?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor), the Director of the East and Southern African Observatory at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (https://globalinitiative.net/) about a new and substantial report called 'Assessing South Africa's organized crime risk (https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/assessing-south-africa-organized-crime-risk/)'.
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