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Taken: Kidnapping surge in Haiti
With kidnapping incidents in Haiti surging, Neil Mugabe examines the current dynamics driving targeted attacks on foreign personnel and highlights emerging hotspots amid intensifying gang violence.
With kidnapping incidents in Haiti surging, Neil Mugabe examines the current dynamics driving targeted attacks on foreign personnel and highlights emerging hotspots amid intensifying gang violence.
Illegal mining has proliferated across South Africa in recent years. Tamsin Hunt examines the ongoing security risks posed to commercial operators in South Africa’s mining sector despite recent law enforcement efforts under Operation Prosper.
The recent detention of Afghan UN personnel highlights the continued unpredictability of the Taliban’s security enforcement in Afghanistan. Despite the Taliban’s appetite for increased international engagement, including with the US, wrongful detention is likely to remain a key tool of the regime to maintain political control over humanitarian activity…
Neo Tsotetsi discusses the recent resurgence of conflict in northern Ethiopia amid long-simmering tensions between the Ethiopian government and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and explores the impact both parties’ deepening foreign alliances stand to have on the country’s fraught security landscape.
Safeguarding critical infrastructure has emerged as a key security priority for European governments in recent years. Neo Tsotetsi discusses the threat landscape driving this reprioritisation, and evaluates the risk posed to commercial operators in these sectors across the coming year.
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure, and governments’ ambitions to remain competitive in the field, are facing growing resistance through opposition to data-centre development. Richard Gardiner examines the growing prominence of the issue in North America and Europe, and assesses the commercial implications of a landscape in which major opportunities…
Since July 2026, heavy clashes have resumed along several frontlines in Yemen, with increasing attacks on Saudi Arabian territory, as well as commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Tamsin Hunt examines the security and commercial repercussions of renewed tensions in Yemen.
Active assailants have staged several attacks targeting schools in the first half of 2026, demonstrating the sustained threat facing educational institutions, Neo Tsotetsi discusses.
As the US administration intensifies its security strategy in the Western hemisphere, and local frustrations grow among populations contending with criminality and violence, Latin American governments face pressure to stem drug trafficking and organised crime. With some states turning to a more heavy-handed approach, Neil Mugabe considers the challenges…
As Congolese authorities and international organisations race to contain the Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC, Richard Gardiner argues that reduced global cooperation, funding shortfalls, geopolitical tensions, and the region’s volatile security environment are hampering containment efforts and creating a challenging operating environment for healthcare…
In the first half of 2026, at least nine Somali piracy attacks were reported around the Horn of Africa, marking a significant increase compared to recent years. Tamsin Hunt examines the conditions that have facilitated the recent surge in attacks.
Violence as a Service (VaaS) networks have proliferated over the past year, in which kidnapping, extortion and assassinations, among other crimes, are commissioned, brokered and carried out transnationally. Shannon Lorimer argues that these fragmented chains complicate law enforcement detection, exposing private companies to new security and commercial…