Secure Africa - Africa Regional Youth Crime Prevention & Development Conference

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The Africa Regional Youth Crime Prevention & Development Conference invites papers from academicians, students, researchers, scholars, practitioners and other stakeholders including NGOs for paper presentation on the following sub themes:

Secure Africa 2024

According to the Global Organized Crime Index 2023 recently released by tthe Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Africa continued to experience high levels of criminality in the two-year period since 2021, remaining the second highest scoring continent in the world at 5.25 out of 10, coming in after Asia. The score, as in 2021, appears to be mainly driven by criminal actors, which, with a score of 5.45, raise the average for criminality in Africa. Criminal markets scored a lower 5.05.

Regional Dynamics

In terms of regional dynamics, East Africa is the highest scoring region on the continent for overall criminality (5.88), leading the list for both criminal markets (5.52) and criminal actors (6.23), followed by West Africa (at 5.44). East Africa ranks among the top five regions for criminality in the world, as a hotbed of illicit activities and a stronghold for criminal actors, whose influence is aggravated by prolonged conflicts that make the region more vulnerable to the threat of organized crime. As for criminal markets, the region is acutely affected by human trafficking and arms trafficking, both at 7.78, the highest regional averages in the world for these types of crimes. These extremely high scores reflect how these two markets are generally predominant and widespread across the region, albeit with some high concentrations in particular countries.

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