Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities.

"They are always looking for deals, there are a lot of deals that we can do," Government of National Unity's Mahmoud Alftise told Newsweek.

Mali is on the brink of falling under the control of al-Qaida's regional affiliate, JNIM, marking a significant shift in West ...

Former Tuareg rebel and Malian diplomat Iyad Ag Ghaly has steered Al Qaeda's Sahel branch JNIM since 2017, spreading its ...

After turning its back on former colonial power France, Mali's junta government in 2021 pivoted to Russia and its notorious ...

Recent instability in Mali is proof that Russia’s paramilitary presence has never had much to offer West African security and development.

Amid a barrage of media reports prophesying the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate disrupting its fuel supply by attacking ...

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted ...

Large-scale trafficking involves different scenarios and situations. The examples below illustrate some of the most common cases that involve large-scale trafficking and point to some of its ...

At least four people have been killed when two boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers capsized off Libya’s coast, according to the Libyan Red Crescent. In a statement on Saturday, the organisation ...

The sheer scale of the crime is staggering, almost unbelievable: an estimated $20 billion stolen from the Libyan people in just three years. To put that number into perspective, that colossal sum, ...