Haitian gangs’ growing funds, arsenals challenge planned intervention – report
Reuters Haitian gangs are increasingly economically autonomous, a Geneva-based criminal research group warned, using funds coerced from private businesses, local residents and families of kidnapping victims to pay for guns and soldiers. “Gangs have undergone a radical evolution, going from rather unstructured actors dependent on resources provided by public or private patronage to violent entrepreneurs,” […]
Under the cover of lockdown, illegal logging surges in Tunisia
Gabes, TunisiaThomson Reuters Foundation As Tunisia’s streets emptied and shops shuttered after the 6pm national curfew to stem the novel coronavirus outbreak, a clandestine group headed to the forest. Over two nights in early April, a group of people in the north-west region of Ain Draham illegally felled 400 trees, a species known as Algerian […]