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OBSERVATORY OF ILLICIT ECONOMIES IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA 25

28 Aug 2023

In the view of Wildlife Direct, the number of links 66 Similarly, in relation to a 2011 seizure in Mombasa, between the accused in different major ivory cases Njagi’s name was identified on a verification form for the prosecuted in Kenya suggests the existence of ‘a cartel shipment found to contain ivory.67 Njagi argued that the controlling major shipments of ivory out of Kenya’. [...] The ripple effects of these month of Ramadan were marred by a spate of shootings shootings are far-reaching: from the intergenerational in which four people were killed and two injured.1 What trauma inflicted on the families of those killed, to how was not widely recognized in the media coverage of insecurity and the threat of violence affect governance these shootings is that the Easter weekend w. [...] These include the widely known Americans gang, the Mongrels, a splinter group of the Mongrels known as Between 24 October 2021 and 17 May 2022, there the Dog Pounds, the Yuru Cats, the Junky Funky kids were 38 murders and two attempted murders within the and the Six Bob gang, for which Grassy Park is the jurisdiction of the Grassy Park police station, many of main base. [...] Three members of the Yuru Cats gang were arrested At a meeting of the community policing forum in on firearms charges after the shooting of an alleged February 2022, local police chief Colonel Dawood Laing member of the Mongrels gang on 14 April.19 However, acknowledged that gang violence had erupted in the in relation to the multiple shootings that claimed two precinct and led to an increase in s. [...] chronic, systemic causes of gang violence, and claiming that he has in fact led a firm stance against corruption in The community’s view of the police response is a the precinct.26 Others have called for more radical microcosm of the conflicted relationship that residents in action such as deployment of the army, as seen in July gang-affected areas have with government and law 2019 in response to.
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