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Malicious markets

Mapping the violent ecosystem in the Central African Republic

Jun 2026 by Nathalia Dukhan - GI-TOC, Ruben De Koning - GI-TOC
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Sudan's storm of Typhon

RSF's rise and the chaos economy

Nov 2025 by J.R. Mailey - GI-TOC
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Mercenaries and illicit markets

Russia's Africa Corps and the business of conflict

Feb 2025 by Julia Stanyard - GI-TOC
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After the fall

Russian influence on Africa's illicit economies post-Wagner

Feb 2025 by GI-TOC
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The war of thieves

Illicit networks, commoditized violence and the arc of state collapse in Sudan

Feb 2024 by J.R. Mailey - GI-TOC
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Tarnished hope

Crime and corruption in South Sudan's gold sector

May 2023 by Marcena Hunter, Ken Opala - GI-TOC
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Business as usual?

Illegal charcoal and timber trade in Eastern DRC

Dec 2022 by Daan van Uhm, Milou Tjoonk, Eliode Bakole - GI-TOC
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Soldiers of fortune

The future of Chadian fighters after the Libyan ceasefire

Dec 2021 by Alexandre Bish - GI-TOC
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