GI-TOC examines how corruption and organized crime exploit Johannesburg’s city council, undermining governance, ...

This report assesses the main patterns in targeted killings in the first nine months of 2026. Political killings and mass killings are counted to 30 September. While it focuses primarily on suspected ...

Mexican journalists face a new layer of risk as criminal groups use AI-driven disinformation to spread fear and weaken trust ...

Methamphetamine from the Mekong moves through adaptable regional supply chains, creating strategic risks for New Zealand and ...

North Africa and the Sahel have long been central to migrant movement, human smuggling and trafficking, with their importance growing steadily since the late 1990s. Today, the two regions are critical ...

Latin American criminal groups are expanding into Europe, building local networks across cocaine, synthetic drugs and arms markets.

William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, known as ‘Negro Willy’, rose to lead the Ecuadorian gang Los Tiguerones while serving as a prison guard. After relocating to Spain in September 2023, he allegedly ...

On 15 September, Ruy Ferraz Fontes, São Paulo’s former police chief, was assassinated by three assailants using high-grade rifles in a busy road in the city of Praia Grande. Ongoing police ...

From 25 to 27 November, the Caribbean’s third Regional Network Meeting for Crime Analysts, organized by the Board of Chiefs of Police of the Dutch Caribbean, brought together nearly 50 analysts, ...

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the March 23 Movement (M23) conflict has fuelled a self-reinforcing criminal ecosystem in which the outsourcing of violence serves as cover for ...