Criminal market
4.63
Human Trafficking
5.41
Human Smuggling
4.27
Arms Trafficking
5.91
Flora Crimes
5.68
Fauna Crimes
5.59
Non-Renewable Resources Crimes
5.64
Heroin Trade
3.09
Cocaine Trade
2.55
Cannabis Trade
4.36
Synthetic Drugs Trade
3.77
Criminal Actors
5.08
Mafia-Style Groups
3.45
Criminal Networks
5.09
State-Embedded Actors
7.09
Foreign Actors
4.68
Political Leadership and Governance
2.95
Government Transparency and Accountability
2.32
International Cooperation
3.82
National Policies and Laws
4.18
Judicial System and Detention
2.82
Law Enforcement
3.27
Territorial Integrity
3.73
Anti-Money Laundering
2.91
Economic Regulatory Environment
2.77
Victim and Witness Support
1.86
Prevention
1.95
Non-State Actors
2.77
In line with other regions, criminal actors marginally drive up the criminality average for Central Africa, with an average score of 5.08, compared to its criminal markets average score of 4.63. When looking at the criminality components individually, both criminal markets and actors fall below the continental averages (4.68 and 5.25, respectively), suggesting perhaps a more limited distribution of criminality typologies than experienced in other regions. In the context of prolonged conflict in the region and the extensive biodiversity that occurs in many countries in Central Africa, arms trafficking and the environmental markets are far more prevalent than are the drug economies. While the region’s average criminal actors score places this subcomponent in the middle of the regional ranking, state-embedded actors have the highest average score in Central Africa than in any other region on the continent. Central Africa is by some distance the lowest-scoring region in Africa for resilience, with an average score of 2.95. While the region does not perform well on any resilience indicator, collectively it falls particularly short with regard to social protection measures, such as victim and witness support and prevention measures.
Criminal market
6.25
Human Trafficking
6.00
Human Smuggling
6.00
Arms Trafficking
5.50
Flora Crimes
7.00
Fauna Crimes
7.00
Non-Renewable Resources Crimes
6.00
Heroin Trade
7.50
Cocaine Trade
4.50
Cannabis Trade
8.00
Synthetic Drugs Trade
5.00
Criminal Actors
5.00
Mafia-Style Groups
3.00
Criminal Networks
6.00
State-Embedded Actors
5.50
Foreign Actors
5.50
Political Leadership and Governance
6.50
Government Transparency and Accountability
3.00
International Cooperation
4.00
National Policies and Laws
5.50
Judicial System and Detention
5.00
Law Enforcement
5.00
Territorial Integrity
4.50
Anti-Money Laundering
5.50
Economic Regulatory Environment
4.50
Victim and Witness Support
1.00
Prevention
3.00
Non-State Actors
2.00
No criminal market scores below 4.5, which suggests that of the ten markets studied, all have at least a moderate to high negative influence on society. However, with regards to criminal actors, no single actor type appears to dominate organised crime, with scores for criminal networks, state-embedded actors and foreign actors ranging between 5.5 and 6. Overall, Tanzania has become a strategic and important player in a number of regional illicit economies. These include growing drugs markets for cannabis and heroin, where the prevalence of users is high and Tanzanians play an instrumental role in trafficking networks. While resilience is deemed as moderate, ranking 22nd, with the government prioritising the fight against organised crime, evidence of tangible implementation is lacking. Experts note the shrinking space for civil society, and state targeting of lower-level drug users and trafficking victims, as being of significant concern.
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The criminal markets score is represented by the pyramid base size and the criminal actors score is represented by the pyramid height, on a scale ranging from 1 to 10. The resilience score is represented by the panel height, which can be identified by the side of the panel.