I had the honour to be interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s The Briefing Room, explaining how a migrant would use a smuggler to get from West Africa to the Mediterranean. It was super to also hear the commentary of Mattia Toaldo of the European Council on Foreign Relations, as well as two other experts from IOM…
Peter and I were pleased to be invited by TinySpark, a non-profit news program and podcast that reports on philanthropy, nonprofits and international aid, to do a podcast on Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savour. We discuss our years-long investigation into the migration crisis, and the role of smugglers, and describe the complex portraits of those involved…
I was really pleased to be interviewed, along with the always outstanding Vanda Felbab-Brown of Brookings and Virginia Comolli of IISS, by Max Daly from Vice News. We were asked to substantiate the rumours around narco terrorism. Is the Drug Trade Really Bank-rolling Terrorism? An Iranian police officer stands behind drugs seized from smugglers, in a…
I’m proud to announce that my first book, Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour, written with Peter Tinti, was published by Hurst Publishers in the UK at the end of September 2016. This book brings together three years worth of research and investigation into one of the most under-examined aspects of the great migration crisis of our time: the migrant…
This week, I spoke to Sky News UK about the challenges of responding to the growing human smuggling industry to Europe.
I was interviewed by José-Fernando Costa Pereira of the European External Action Service for their Newsletter of EU – African affairs (No 5, April 2016). 1. Shall we start with the root causes of organised crime in Africa? In the title of a conference you are about to hold after this interview, there is the word “fragility”.…
In this interview, Tuesday Reitano and Mark Shaw, both of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, discuss the scale of West Africa’s illegal economies being run by organised-crime groups and terrorists. They were interviewed by Jide Akintunde, Managing Editor, Financial Nigeria magazine, regarding an upcoming OECD study, “Illicit Financial Flows: Criminal Economies in West…
I was pleased to serve as a respondent for the launch of the OECD’s 2015 “States of Fragility Report 2015” this month in Paris. This was the latest iteration of the Fragile States Reports that the OECD has been publishing for the last ten years, and which provided the interesting but controversial “Fragile States List,” which…
I spoke to Canada’s CBC on the smugglers working behind the scenes of the Syrian refugee crisis. With the Global Initiative, I am currently undertaking multiple streams of research on the networks behind the migration crisis, amplifying and exacerbating the scale of the flow and its humanitarian implications.
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