Organised Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Africa Project Summary

RUSI’s ‘Organised Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Africa’ project addresses a critical gap in current knowledge on sub-national perceptions of insecurity. It gives voice to local-level perceptions of key threats – acknowledging that current understandings of crime, terrorism and wider insecurity are often based on top-down analysis privileging government and donor perspectives. This interactive summary draws on extensive fieldwork conducted from 2022–24 in two case study countries: Mozambique and Nigeria.