This is a combined Extract from FCN’s Sub Saharan Africa Threat Assessment & Selected Individual Deep Dive Country Threat Assessments focussed on the Illegal wildlife…

The major criminal markets in Sub saharan Africa generally exploit the resources found in the region, including people, goods and the environment. and are estimated…

According to the Global Slavery Index, there are estimated to be approximately 7 million, men, women and children living in conditions of modern slavery in…

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo attained the Presidency of Equatorial Guinea, an oil rich West African State in 1979 and continues as President still today. For…

According to Transparency International’s 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index, Africa is the most corrupt region of the world. Corruption according to the African Union, is the…

Frederick Chiluba became President of Zambia in 1991, inheriting enormous economic problems, aggravated by the worst drought in the country for 50 years. He tried…

Omar Bongo was Gabon’s second President, (1936-2009) succeeding to the highest position at only the age of 31. Gabon whilst achieving its independence from France…

In 1960 Mobutu was appointed state secretary in the first government of President Lumumba in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and later becoming…

The Lord’s Resistance Army (“LRA”) was formed in 1988 from the remnants of a defeated resistance movement amongst the Acholi people of northern Uganda. It…

Al-Shabaab, or ‘the youth’, is a Somali based terrorist group, which was formerly the most prominent of the militia groups comprising the militant wing of…