Luanda, 15- 17 June 2022: UNODC ROSAF through its Project Office in Angola in partnership with the Attorney General’s office and the National Institute for Judiciary Studies (INEJ) held a 3-day workshop on asset confiscation for magistrates

Between 27 June – 1 July 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized an exchange visit with representatives of key Mozambican institutions to Portugal to discuss the practical implementation of national programs on prevention, treatment, care, and support services for people who use drugs, including in prison settings.

Lilongwe (Malawi), 25 May 2022 – Over the last several years, the threat of terrorism has been looming ever larger over Southern Africa. Terrorist groups, once local dangers, have become increasingly global and less centralized, using social media, foreign fighters, and illicit trafficking to support and carry out their acts of terror.

Lilongwe 23/03/2022: The Government of Malawi and UNODC have joined forces to address the challenges of criminality and security facing the country, with UNODC supporting the Malawian Minister of Homeland Security to launch its five-year Strategic Security Plan.

11 February 2022 – From bribery and trading in influence to abuse of functions and embezzlement, corruption takes many different forms. While an age-old issue, it is the ever-increasing complexity of the crime, coupled with the impact seen during times of crisis such as during COVID-19, which makes it even more concerning.

On the 30 November 2021, the Callas Foundation, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, launched a pilot project on non-custodial measures for women in conflict with the law (WICL) at Athlone, Western Cape, South Africa. The launch coincided with the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children.

UNODC in collaboration with the Department of Defence, Justice and Security convened a Judicial TOT Against TiP in Kasane, Botswana from the 11 to 13 July, which is part of UNODC priorities in the SADC Region in enhancing the capacity of criminal justice practitioners in the response to human trafficking using human and victim centred approaches under the joint UNODC-SADC Regional Programme (2013 -2023).

Zambia, July 22^nd, 2021. On Nelson Mandela International Day (July 18th), the UNODC ROSAF hosted a global webinar to discuss gaps in and recommendations for adherence to the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, also known as the Nelson Mandela Rules (NMR).

Zambia, August 26^th, 2021. UNODC supports he ongoing “Building Networks Behind Prison Walls” virtual webinar series since 2020, with the aim to address issues and challenges and bring awareness to life in and after prison.

In January 2020, UNODC Zambia supported the assessment of the capacity of several CSOs, including the Prisoners Reintegration and Empowerment Organization (PREO). This assessment revealed that many local CSOs had weak structural and organizational documents, procedures, and practices to sustain internal and external momentum and vision for their work.

Pretoria, South Africa - 10 September 2021 – UNODC Regional Office for Southern Africa, under the framework of the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Project, and in collaboration with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa, donated Personal Protective Equipment to various shelters for Victims of Trafficking in Persons and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa, in order to ensure that they along with staff in the respective shelters are protected from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The SADC region has high rates of sexual violence against women and girls. The 2018 SADC GBV Study indicates that emotional violence is the most predominant form of violence in the region, at approximately, 26.8% prevalence, while slightly over one in every ten persons had experienced physical violence (11.2%) and sexual violence (12.0%).

Since 2019, UNODC has been working, in collaboration with regional and international partners and in cooperation with the Government of Mozambique, to provide assistance to law enforcement stakeholders and other national institutions.The Mozambique Channel is one of the primary passageways for the movement of illicit goods in the region.

Raising women’s voices through enabling their leadership, participation and representation in decision-making processes are effective and important tools in advancing women’s empowerment.  This includes enhancing, inspiring, and mentoring the next generation of women leaders. Member states of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Co-operation Organization (SARPCCO) are continually working towards achieving gender parity in decision-making, and strive to meet national, regional, and global commitments in this regard.

Lilongwe (Malawi), 1 April 2021 — Criminal networks are operating within the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in central Malawi where men, women and children are being exploited for profit or tricked and trafficked to other countries in Southern Africa for forced labour and prostitution.

Recent terrorist attacks in the northern region of Mozambique, including those committed last week in the town of Palma as well as reports of heinous crimes commited against civilians including beheadings, have shown the urgent  need for the international community to join forces to support Mozambique in addressing the growing threat of terrorism in the country.

“I Speak on Behalf of the Voiceless”

"I was Born to be a Leader”

In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8^th 2021, the UNODC’s Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSAF) spoke with an inspirational figure in women’s leadership, Major General Sylvia Ledwaba.

‘Pathways to Women’s Imprisonment Webinar,’ focused on Alternatives to Incarceration

“Create Your Future Now!”

2 March 2021

Collecting and preserving evidence at a terrorism crime scene is a key element to build a successful case for prosecution, helping, this way, to bring terrorists and those who support them to justice while respecting the rule of law. 

UNODC’s Strategic Vision for Africa 2030 outlines our mission to provide more safety to Africa’s people, government and institutions from drugs, crime, corruption, terrorism and illicit financial flows. Our Vision 2030 seeks to strengthen crime prevention, enhance justice, address organized crime, ensure a balanced response to drugs, improve the rule of law and bolster resilience.

The year 2020 has seen a continuation of the shift south in trafficking patterns for heroin departing from the Makran Coast of the Gulf of Oman toward Africa. There has been a notable increase in heroin and other dangerous narcotics, including methamphetamine, heading toward the north of Mozambique, potentially funding terrorist activity.

Nelson Mandela International Day, which honors the outstanding contribution of the former South African President to humankind and remembers the 27 years he was deprived of his liberty, is an opportunity to promote humane conditions of imprisonment, raise awareness of prisoners as members of the community, and value the work of prison staff.

In June 2020, UNODC donated a clinic to the Mozambique National Prisons Service (SERNAP) to provide primary health care, sexual and reproductive health care and HIV counseling and treatment services to incarcerated juveniles at the Boane Special Juvenile Recovery Penitentiary Facility in Maputo.

This year the UNODC Regional Office for Southern Africa in cooperation with Malawi Inter Agency Coordination Committee Against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) commemorated the World Day against TIP by providing so much needed personal protection equipment to Salvation Army Shelter for TIP victims.

Donated equipment included Disposable Surgical Latex Gloves, Disposable Surgical Face Masks, Hand sanitizers, Infrared thermometers.

30 July 2020: Trafficking in persons situation in South Africa: The Republic of South Africa is a primary destination for trafficked persons in the Southern Africa region and within Africa at large. It is also an origin and transit country for: trafficking towards Europe and North America. Trafficking affects women, men and children exploited in forced labour, commercial sex, forced begging and forced criminality.

My name is Charles Ephraim Luhanga, co-founder of Fula Africa. Fula Africa is a non-governmental organization based in Pretoria, South Africa. It’s aim is to promote the dignity of the victims of trafficking in persons in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region at large. Fula Africa provides translation services to rescued victims of trafficking in persons and also raises awareness on the scourge of trafficking in persons among communities in South Africa.

Pretoria, South Africa – On 26 June, the UNODC Regional Representative Ms. Zhuldyz Akisheva, and South Africa Department of Social Development (DSD) led by Minister Lindiwe Zulu commemorated the 2020 World Drug Day (WDD) under international theme “Better Knowledge for Better Care” which highlights the need to better understand the dynamics and factors related to drug use and to propose solutions that are balanced, health-centred and based on scientific evidence.

The Government of Norway and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) signed an agreement today on Norway's contribution of NOK 17,000,000 (USD 1.7 million) for over a period of three years. This funding will support sustainable presence of the UNODC in Mozambique and the implementation of the “Maputo Roadmap” especially in the areas of terrorism prevention and the fight against corruption.

4 June 2020. People in prisons and other places of detention are vulnerable to COVID-19 due to the confined conditions in which they live and to limited access to health care services. Experience shows that settings in which people are gathered in proximity may act as a source of infection, amplification and spread of infectious diseases, within their walls and beyond. Preventing and managing COVID-19 in prison settings is particularly challenging and requires whole-of-government and whole-of-society involvement.

20 April 2020 – The rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world has demonstrated that everyone is susceptible to the ravages of this virus, with some population groups more at risk than others depending on their age and health conditions. While these factors have been widely publicized , there are some groups which remain less visible in the public eye, but which are nevertheless an integral part of society; prisoners, for whom social distancing is not an option in tight spaces, are unable to take the same precautions as most other members of society.

Pretoria: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in South Africa today handed over personal protective equipment (PPE) to several Gauteng Province shelters for women who have suffered from gender-based violence and human trafficking, as well as to the immigration officers of the Department of Home Affairs.

21 November 2019 - A team of Malawi police officers trained by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in investigating human trafficking cases rescued six presumed Nepali trafficking victims in Blantyre on 6 November 2019.

The rescue operation was coordinated by the Malawian Police Headquarters following an alert from the Anti-Human Trafficking Bureau (AHTB) of the Nepali Police - who in turn had been contacted by the presumed victims' families - that six Nepali nationals were being kept against their will in Blantyre.

UNODC supported a series of interactive consultations with women who use drugs, including women who inject drugs, in four cities within South Africa, namely: Pretoria, Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg with the aim to identify their needs and challenges/barriers to access health services and propose solutions to removing such barriers. About 100 women who use and inject drugs participated in these consultations. Key findings include the existence of extreme levels of sexual violence and sexual rights violations experienced by women who use drugs and high levels of stigma among service providers, leading to limited accessing of key health services. Another phenomenon is the violence and aggression directed at women and other people who use drugs by law enforcement officers. This has also included security raids and forced removals, as well as sexual favours required by law enforcement agencies. Issues related to continuity of care have also been raised, where medical treatment is interrupted at the times of arrest and when belongings are confiscated, especially for street-dwelling female drug users

The Province of Cabo Delgado in Northern Mozambique has been increasingly affected by violence since October 2017. To date, around 300 people have been killed, thousands have been injured and several communities and livelihoods devastated. The violence has had a negative ripple effect on peace, development and governance in the province of Cabo Delgado.

WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA - Violence against women has been a continuous challenge in Namibia. Back in 2015 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) expressed concern over the high prevalence of violence against women and girls such as rape and murder committed by intimate partners. The Committee was also concerned at the low rate of prosecution of perpetrators of violence against women and the frequent withdrawal of cases by women victims of violence. (CEDAW/C/NAM/CO/4-5).

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA - UNODC has launched a series of capacity building workshops through its project " Countering Illicit Financial Flows by Strengthening Law Enforcement for Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network for Southern Africa (ARINSA)". A regional approach has been taken with various workshops being held in the region. The first workshop was held in Dar es Salaam, from 12 to 15 August 2019.

Southern Africa has not escaped the negative effects of this global problem, as cash is often smuggled through its borders to finance organised criminal activities including narcotics, human trafficking, and terrorism. This initiative is aimed at limiting the movement of illicit funds. Read More

Gobabis, NAMIBIA - The Governor for Omaheke Region in Namibia, Festus Uitele, has commended the Namibia Correctional Service (NCS) through the Gobabis Correctional Facility (GCF), for taking innovative steps to ensure food security which is linked to health outcomes, in its facilities. Read More

Ezulwini, KINGDOM of ESWATINI - 8 August 2019 - Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Eswatini, His Excellency Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, launched the National Strategic Framework and Action Plan to Combat People Trafficking 2019-2023. The launch of the Strategic Framework and Action Plan took place under the Commemoration of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons framework with the theme: "Human Trafficking: Call your Government to action. Read More

Cabo Delgado, MOZAMBIQUE - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has collaborated with the Attorney General's Office of Mozambique to organize a workshop to build the capacity of relevant stakeholders to respond to an increasing threat of terrorism and violent extremism.

The workshop was held in Cabo Delgado from 16 to 18 July 2019 and brought together over 30 Investigators, Prosecutors, Judges and Defense forces officials. Read More

Pretoria , SOUTH AFRICA - 1 August 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the SADC Secretariat in collaboration with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development have deployed the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Trafficking in Persons Data collection system to South Africa. [Read More]

Kabwe, ZAMBIA - The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has donated laboratory equipment to a clinic at Mukobeko Medium Correctional Facility in the Central Province of Zambia.UNODC Regional Coordinator for Southern Africa Signe Rotberga officially presented the equipment to the Deputy Commissioner General in charge of Operations within the Zambia Correctional Service, Lloyd Chilundika. [Read More]

18 July 2019 - For the 10th time, the international community celebrates Nelson Mandela International Day, honouring his outstanding contribution to humankind and remembering the 27 years he had to spend in prison. The decision of the UN General Assembly to closely associate his name with the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners have put a renewed and urgently needed spotlight on prison management, conditions and reform efforts worldwide. [Read More]

Kasane, BOTSWANA - 9-11 July 2019 - UNODC and the Department of Defence, Justice and Security convened the third Judicial Colloquium Against Trafficking in Persons in Kasane, Botswana from 9 to 11 July. [Read More]

Lilongwe, MALAWI - The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has held a series of training sessions on alternative sentencing for Malawi magistrates in line with recommendations of United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (The Tokyo Rules). [Read More]

Lusaka, ZAMBIA - The outdated belief that children should be seen and not heard went down in flames on June 26 when Zambia joined the rest of the world in marking the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking with children at the center of the commemorations. [Read More]

Lilongwe, MALAWI - An initiative supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, involving the Ministry of Health and the Malawi Prison Service, to screen female inmates, prison staff and spouses of prison staff for cervical cancer reached 446 clients from 17 prisons, which accommodate female inmates. Of the 446 women screened, 197 of them were inmates. [Read More]

Vienna, AUSTRIA - 26 June 2019 - Improved research and more precise data have revealed that the adverse health consequences of drug use are more severe and widespread than previously thought. Globally, some 35 million people are estimated to suffer from drug use disorders and who require treatment services, according to the latest World Drug Report, released today by UNODC. [Read More]

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA - 12 June 2019-- Assets, including minerals worth $ 41 million USD, determined to be proceeds of crime were confiscated and nationalized by the Government of Tanzania in 2018 according to the Vice-President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, while delivering a keynote address on behalf of President John Magufuli, at the launch of the 10 ^th ARINSA Anniversary and Annual General Meeting. The VP was speaking at the official opening, which was held at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [Read More]

Harare, ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwean Members of Parliament have undertaken site visits to three correctional facilities to better appreciate health-related challenges that inmates face.The visits to prisons followed a capacity building initiative which sought to unpack the Zimbabwean Constitution, review laws, policies and Acts related to Adolescent Girls and Young Women, Key populations and Prisoners. [Read More]

Windhoek, NAMIBIA - Namibia's First Lady Monica Geingos has pledged to lead efforts to furnish a child-friendly facility at the Windhoek Correctional Facility to support circumstantial children. [Read More]

Gender-based Violence (GBV) remains one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations and a major obstacle to the fulfilment of women's and girls' human rights, as well as to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG). [Read More]

Southern African countries have taken a crucial and collective stand against the phenomena of terrorism and violent extremism. In a regional workshop held in Pretoria, South Africa from 28 to 30 May 2019, delegations from fifteen Southern African countries discussed the critical role of a functioning criminal justice system in preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism. [Read More]

Pretoria, South Africa - 2 May 2019 - The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development launched, in collaboration with UNODC and under the framework of the Global Action against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants ( GLO.ACT), on 25 April 2019 the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons National Policy Framework (NPF). [Read More]

Windhoek, Namibia - 18 April 2019 - Over the years, Namibia has enacted legislation and policies to protect the rights of all citizens. However, despite a fairly developed legislative and policy framework, gender-based violence has become the norm rather than the exception for the country's women and girls, many of whom have been raped, maimed or murdered in gruesome circumstances. [Read More]

Lusaka, Zambia, 12 April 2019 - Prisoner rehabilitation efforts in Zambia were given a strong boost this week with the opening of two new facilities aimed at curbing recidivism in the country and promoting social reintegration. [Read More]

25 - 27 March 2019 Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA - In 2018, ARINSA countries reported preservation orders in the amount of US $529,437,092.15. The ability to restrain, seize and/or attach illicitly obtained assets is a vital part of making asset recovery work effective. Without the power to keep assets safe from depreciation, theft or consumption, it is very likely that the assets will be worthless or non-existent before the final judgement is passed. [Read More]

Namibia, Swakopmund - From 25 to 29 March 2019, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the Anti-Corruption Commission, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) convened two workshops to build the baseline of Namibia's preventive and criminal justice responses to wildlife and forest crime (WLFC), and to support the development of capacity building tools for prosecutors and investigators on the topics. [Read More]

Durban, South Africa - 19 March 2019 - UNODC, under the framework of the Global Action against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (GLO.ACT) and in collaboration with the South African Police Services (SAPS) in KwaZulu Natal and the National Prosecuting Authority, facilitated a three-day training workshop from the 12 to 14 March 2019 on the issue of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). [Read More]

South Africa, 4-9 March 2019 - 50 prosecutors and law enforcement officials in Cape Town and 27 law enforcement officials in Johannesburg attended training workshops from 4 to 6 March and 7 to 9 March respectively. [Read More]

KASUNGU, March 2019 - In Malawi, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is helping the Malawi Prison Service (MPS) to boost crop production on its prison farms in order to improve nutrition - a major challenge affecting the country's approximately 15,000 inmates. [Read More]

Pretoria, 8 February 2019 -On the request of the Governments of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, UNODC convened legal experts from the two countries for a closed legislation drafting session in Pretoria from 4-8 February 2019. [Read More]

Lusaka, 17 January 2019 - The Government of Zambia, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and with the financial support of the United Kingdom, has launched a new project on trafficking in persons, entitled " Strengthening the implementation of a comprehensive response to trafficking in persons in Zambia". [Read More]

10 December 2018 - The Public Service Commission, in partnership with the United Nations and the University of South Africa (UNISA), commemorated the 2018 International Anti-Corruption Day on Monday in Pretoria, under the theme "United against Corruption: W orking together to enhance an environment where the rule of law prevails". Read More....

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4-5 December 2018 - A Trafficking in Persons Operation ("Operation Batho") Review Meeting was held this week in Johannesburg, South Africa. Representatives were drawn from INTERPOL, the United Nations, civil society, and delegates from 7 countries in the region. Delegates from the countries present at the workshop included Heads of Criminal Investigation Departments (CID) and Heads of Intelligence, Immigration focal points (at director level), Prosecution focal points, and representatives from Social Services. Read More

Lilongwe, 15 November 2018 - The Government of Malawi in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with funding by the UK Government, launched a new cooperation project on trafficking in persons. [Read More]

VIENNA, 5 October 2018 - Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), congratulated Nadia Murad Basee Taha, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, on being awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize today. Read More

Pretoria, South Africa - Following the successful launch of the joint EU-UNODC initiative, the "GLO.ACT -Global Action to Prevent and Address Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants" on the 22 September 2016 in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in South Africa, an information sharing workshop on the Trafficking in Persons Act from 19-20 June 2017. Read more

Mr Aldo Lale-Demoz, UNODC Deputy Executive Director/ Director of Division for Operations met H.E. Prof. Hlengiwe Mkhize, a newly appointed Minister of Home Affairs of South Africa. Having reconfirmed UNODC commitment to the expansion of cooperation with the Department of Home Affairs, Mr Lale-Demoz informed the Minister on the progress of GLO.ACT's implementation, a project launched in South Africa last year. Read more

According to a 2013 global review by the World Health Organization, 35 % of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence on non-partner sexual violence. It is estimated that one in five girls has been abused in childhood with estimates from some countries as high as one in three. Read more...

According to the UN Security Council, terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da'esh) and associated groups have attracted over 30,000 Foreign Terrorist Fighters from over 100 Member States. Increasingly, terrorist groups are working to radicalize individuals and incite them to leave their homes to become foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs). [Read More]

7 February 2017. Maseru. UNODC handed over equipment to the Lesotho Ministry of Home Affairs, to enhance the country's data collection capacities on trafficking in persons. [Read More]

This year, the International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) was celebrated in South Africa under the national slogan "In Partnership towards a National Anti-Corruption Strategy". On the International Day, a meeting was organized to officially launch the broad national consultations on the discussion document for the development of a new Anti-Corruption Strategy. [Read More]

Southern African countries are being challenged by increased wildlife crime levels. Organised syndicates, mainly from South-East Asian countries working together with local counterparts have established highly organised routes to traffic wildlife products to South-East Asia. [Read More]

The Government of Zimbabwe launched its Trafficking in Person National Plan of Action (hereafter "NAPLAC") and adopted the Blue Heart Campaign on the occasion of the commemoration of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons in the capital, Harare. UNODC, working in partnership with the SADC Secretariat and IOM provided technical assistance to the government of Zimbabwe in the development of the NAPLAC. [Read More]

From 22 - 25 September 2016 and as a follow-up to the July 2015 Regional Judiciary Retreat held in Swakopmund, Namibia, the Southern African Chief Justices Forum (SACJF) returned to Namibia to hold the 2016 Annual Conference and General Meeting under the theme of "Contemporary Issues in the Prevention of Organised Crime". [Read More]

UNODC and the Secretariat of the Southern Africa Development Community partnered in organizing the first ever regional meeting to discuss the challenge that the Region faces in addressing a growing problem of Smuggling of Migrants. [Read More]

Antananarivo, Madagascar - In the first ever visit to Madagascar, SAMIFIN (Madagascar Financial Investigation Unit) hosted members from the UNODC's Asset Recovery Inter- Agency Network for Southern Africa (ARINSA) Secretariat for meetings and discussions designed to forge new partnerships between ARINSA and Madagascar. [Read More]

Representatives from Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, SADC Secretariat and UNODC ROSAF came together on 23 November 2015 at the Headquarters of SADC to discuss the progress made in cooperation under the Regional Programme for "Making the Southern African Region Safer from Drugs and Crime". [Read more]

Swaziland, like other Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), is a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking. Women and children from Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria and Asia have been trafficked to and across Swaziland for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude and, labour exploitation on the farms, as street vendors, in car-wash businesses and on construction sites. [Read more]

The UN General Assembly, at its Thirteenth Special Session devoted to the World Drug Problem, highlighted the need "to strengthen and utilize existing and relevant regional, as appropriate, sub-regional and international networks for the exchange of the operational information to prevent and counter money-laundering, illicit financial flows and terrorist financing" (the UN GA resolution A/RES/S-30/1 adopted on 19 April 2016). [ Read More]

On July 28, 2015, the UNODC Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSAF) held a meeting with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat to discuss the progress made under the joint Regional Programme "Making the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region Safer from Crime and Drugs". [Read more]