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Palermo strikes back.

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  On 11 February 2025, Italian police carried out a major operation in Palermo, Sicily, targeting key mafia districts. With 1 200 officers deployed in the city and surrounding areas, and aerial surveillance to support the raids, law enforcement officers arrested over 180 people from the notorious clans that have ruled the Sicilian mafia, the Cosa Nostra, for the past two decades. European Observatories Analysis : Despite a hard blow to Cosa Nostra, the  Sicilian mafia  remains resilient.

Transnational Organized Crime and the Pacific Islands.

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  Building Resilience - Asia -Asia/Pacific Observatories.

Evaluating Cocaine Market intervention.

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  Global Initiative

West Africa's growing synthetic drugs challenge.

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  Analysis from the West East African Observatories concerning the Kush in Sierra Leone

The decline of Media Freedom udermines resilience to organized crime in Asian and Pacific.

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  Global Organized Crime Index - Asia - Asia/Pacific Observatories.

Future trends in arms trafficking from Ukraine conflict.

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  Analysis From Eastern Asian States Observatories and European Observatories.

Smoke and mirrors: Afghanistan's illicit Drug Economu after the opium ban.

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  Global Initiative

Mercenaries and Illicit Markets.

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  SANCTIONS AND ORGANIZED CRIME Eastern African States observatories, Western Eastern Africa Observatories Mercenaries and Illicit Markets: Russia's Africa Corps and the business of conflict.

Catatumbo's cocaine war.

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  Analysis from the Amerian Region Observatories concerning the Catatumbo's cocaine war .

Steal, corrupt, kill: The evolving face of Transnational Organized Crime.

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  European Asian States observatories, European Union Observatories; South- East Europe Observatories

Negative side effects: How fentanyl has poisoned relation between US and Canada.

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  North America Strategic Platform on organized crime.

Afghanistan's unchecked arsenal under Taliban rule.

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  Central South Asia observatories

After the fall.

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  Russian companies influence on Africa's illicit economies post-wagner. Eastern African States Observatories, Eastern Southeast Africa Observatories, West Eastern African Observatories