Racketeering and Extortion

The Central Africa Observatory researches the links between racketeering and extortion (including activities such as piracy, robbery and kidnapping for ransom) and instability and violence in the region.

Highlights

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

by CA-Obs

Sudan's civil war reignites the illicit car trade into Chad

The war for Congo's wealth

How organized crime fuels the M23 crisis in eastern DRC

Publications

Central African Republic

Warlord Business

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

Cameroon

The tri-border tangle

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

South Sudan

Sudan's storm of Typhon

RSF's rise and the chaos economy

Cameroon

Cattle rustling in the border regions of Cameroon and Chad

Other strategic areas

Arms trafficking

Drug trafficking

Environmental crimes

Financial crimes

Extraction, trade and trafficking of fossil fuels