Environment - GITOC | Central Africa

Environmental crimes

The Central Africa Observatory investigates the interrelation between violence and environmental crimes in Central Africa, and the role of organized crime actors in the exploitation of the environment.

Highlights

Focusing on M23 allows ADF insurgents to expand in eastern DRC

by CA-Obs

Publications

Democratic Republic of Congo

Kony's Ivory

How elephant poaching in Congo helps support the Lord's Resistance Army

South Sudan

Deadly Profits

Illegal wildlife trafficking through Uganda and South Sudan

Central African Republic

Mercenaries and illicit markets

Russia's Africa Corps and the business of conflict

Central African Republic

Warlord Business

CAR's violent armed groups and their criminal operations for profit and power

Cameroon

Cattle rustling in the border regions of Cameroon and Chad

Cameroon

Port of call

Regional illicit flows through Douala, Cameroon

Other strategic areas

Arms trafficking

Drug trafficking

Financial crimes

Extraction, trade and trafficking of fossil fuels

Mining and trafficking in metals and gemstones