Arms - GITOC | Central Africa

Arms trafficking

The Central Africa Observatory investigates illicit flows of arms and military equipment in Central Africa and their roles in sustaining violence across the region.

Highlights

Soft power: missing element in the Chad-Cameroon border defence pact?

by CA-Obs

Contested corridors

The illicit transnational supply chains sustaining Sudan’s conflict

Publications

Cameroon

The tri-border tangle

Arms trafficking, crime and violence in the borderlands of Chad, Cameroon and Central African Republic

Chad

Collateral circuits

The impact of the Sudan's war on arms markets and mercenary networks in Chad and Libya

Other strategic areas

Drug trafficking

Environmental crimes

Financial crimes

Extraction, trade and trafficking of fossil fuels

Mining and trafficking in metals and gemstones