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Goma, one year on: Illicit profits, failed peace
Any durable approach to ending the DRC conflict must confront the illicit economies sustaining the war
26 Jan 2026
by Zobel Behalal (GI-TOC)
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Criminal convergence on Cameroon's coast

Financing conflict and sustaining violence in the Gulf of Guinea

Dec 2025
by Raoul Sumo Tayo - ISS

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

25 Nov 2025
by Mugah Michael Sitawa - ISS

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

08 Oct 2025
by Oluwole Ojewale - ISS

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