The UN agency that fights drugs and crime estimated that cocaine trafficking is generating some $900 million annually in West and Central Africa as South American cartels use the shortest route to transport drugs to Europe.

A British watchdog is worried that money from mines will fund Zanu-PF violence ahead of elections.

Africa’s Western black rhino has officially been declared extinct and other subspecies of rhinoceros could follow, according to the latest review by a leading conservation organization.

The drugs trade in West Africa is going the way of Mexico, with local players increasingly taking control of an ever more sophisticated system to smuggle cocaine into the rich market to the north, the UN said

The chairperson of Nigeria's anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Farida Waziri, has called for special courts to try corruption cases and urged developed countries to help Africa to recover its looted funds, her office said recently

British electronic waste is being exported to poor African nations where it threatens the environment and human health, reveals joint Panorama and EIA investigation

G8 powers Tuesday launched a strategy to curb drug trafficking by sharing intelligence particularly targeting west Africa, a major transit region for cocaine from Latin America to Europe

Britain’s recycling industry is being exploited by criminal gangs that have illegally shipped large quantities of toxic material to developing countries, prosecutors will claim at a series of court cases in the pipeline

Sahara states trying to contain al Qaeda plan to recruit money-laundering experts to track down the millions of dollars the militants earn through kidnapping and smuggling, security sources have told Reuters

There has been a 20% drop in cases of narcotic drug trafficking, according to the 2009 annual Police crime report. The report noted that the fall was because Uganda was fast turning into a consumer rather than a conduit of the illicit substances