A report issued by the United Nations Crime and Narcotics Office alerted to the risk of organizing crime in Africa.
According to the report issued by the office today, Saturday, at least 3,500 people in Africa, last year, they were victims of the organized crime activities witnessed by the continent south of the Sahara.
The report pointed out that the organized crimes witnessed by the African continent are evident in the Sahel and Sahara region, where terrorist organizations, whose activities are usually funded by illegal trafficking in raw materials such as minerals, salts, gold, silver and diamonds are cooperating with gangs specialized in projects of these activities, where it is considered The report is that terrorism is the most common organized criminal form in Africa, which the United Nations is working to confront in cooperation with the continent’s governments.
According to the UN report, during the year 2021, the United Nations began supervising and coordinating the implementation of 25 projects to combat terrorism, illegal immigration and organized crimes in sub -Saharan Africa, and those efforts resulted in the training of 2500 security men, the forest guards and the illegal immigration and drugs in the African security services, and reached The number of training activities in this regard is 160 effectiveness during the past year.
Moreover, the forests and wildlife in Africa have not escaped from the activities of organized criminality gangs. According to the report, the illegal ivory trade activities generate at least 400 million US dollars on these gangs annually.
The report indicated that 500 million Africans are currently living in a state of misery from the outbreak of the Corona epidemic until the end of last year, where the scourge of the disease and the activities of organized criminality groups that do not know mercy, which increases their humanitarian suffering and imposed the thousands of them to join the path of the crime in search of a summit Live.
The United Nations also started through the Crime and Drugs Office to implement training activities to increase awareness among the African youth sectors of the risks of organized crime and illegal immigration and drugs that resulted in the graduation of 1,800 African youth cadres to work as local coaches in the field of mass awareness campaigns in the continent’s countries to fortify its citizens against engaging in Crime paths, whatever their poverty levels..
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