Trans-Africa Security: Combating Illicit Trafficking & Convergence Crime in Africa

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1 Dipomacy In Action Trans-Africa Security: Combating Iicit Trafficking & Convergence Crime in Africa Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Nationa Defense University May 17, 2017 Fort McNair, DC David M. Luna Senior Director for Nationa Security and Dipomacy Bureau of Internationa Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs U.S. Department of State Emai: 1

2 Dipomacy In Action Presidentia Executive Order on Enforcing Federa Law with Respect to Transnationa Crimina Organizations and Preventing Internationa Trafficking (February ) Section 2. Poicy. It sha be the poicy of the executive branch to: (a) strengthen enforcement of Federa aw in order to thwart transnationa crimina organizations and subsidiary organizations, incuding crimina gangs, cartes, racketeering organizations, and other groups engaged in iicit activities that present a threat to pubic safety and nationa security and that are reated to, for exampe: (i) the iega smugging and trafficking of humans, drugs or other substances, widife, and weapons; (ii) corruption, cybercrime, fraud, financia crimes, and inteectua-property theft; or (iii) the iega conceament or transfer of proceeds derived from such iicit activities 2

3 Coective Action: Fighting Networks with Networks Iicit Trafficking and Threat Networks 3

4 The Rewards of Transnationa Organized Crime 4

5 OECD: Task Force on Countering Iicit Trade 5

6 OECD: Task Force on Countering Iicit Trade 6

7 OECD: Task Force on Countering Iicit Trade 7

8 OECD: Task Force on Countering Iicit Trade 8

9 Combating internationa crime, corruption, and iega drugs, and their impact on the United States, its citizens, and partner nations by providing effective foreign assistance and fostering goba cooperation to counter these threats 9

10 Primary Objectives, INL Africa Objectives: Combatting Trafficking and Transnationa Crime Fostering Governance and Rue of Law Faciitating Justice and Prosecution of Crime Stabiization and Security Sector Reform 1

11 ACES Lines of Effort, INL African Union: INCLE (Biatera) Technica Assistance to AU Institutions Rue of Law Human Rights Centra African Repubic: INCLE (Biatera) Law Enforcement Reform Corrections Reform Judiciary Reform Countering Widife Trafficking Strengthen Legisative Frameworks Buid Investigative and Enforcement Functions Enhance Prosecutoria and Judicia Capacity Deveop Cross-Border Regiona Cooperation DRC: INCLE (Biatera) Poice Deveopment Justice Sector Support Kenya: INCLE (Biatera and PREACT) Law Enforcement Reform Justice Reform SGI Anti-Corruption PREACT CVE 1

12 West Africa Lines of Effort, INL Liberia: INCLE (Biatera and Regiona) Rue of Law Law Enforcement Counternarcotics Mai: INCLE (Biatera) Law Enforcement Reform Judicia and Corrections Reform Niger: INCLE (Biatera) Law Enforcement Reform Justice/Corrections Reform Nigeria: INCLE (Biatera and Regiona) Counter-Narcotics and Law Enforcement Reform Rue of Law and Good Governance Stabiization Operations and Security Sector Reform Rue of Law and Human Rights TSCTP: INCLE (Biatera) Incudes: Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Mai, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senega Law Enforcement and Judica Refor, WARSI: INCLE Incudes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mai, Niger, Nigeria, Senega, Sierra Leone, Togo Law Enforcement and Security Sector Reform and Justice Sector Reform 1

13 ACES Lines of Effort, INL Mozambique: INCLE (Biatera) Poice Deveopment Anticorruption, Transnationa Crime Somaia: INCLE (Biatera and PREACT) Law Enforcement Reform Justice Reform PREACT CVE South Africa: INCLE (Biatera) Law Enforcement Reform Tanzania: INCLE (Biatera) Poice Deveopment Counterterrorism Countering Vioent Extremism 1

14 Countering Iega Widife Trade By pacing widife trafficking within the context of our broader goas of combating corruption, dismanting transnationa organized crimina networks, and promoting the rue of aw, we can everage our respective poitica wi and capabiities to enforce our aws, prosecute widife traffickers, and repe poachers before a saughter, and punish iicit actors whose crimina intent is to piage, profit from, and destroy our ecosystems, habitats, and communities. David M. Luna, HRH Prince of Waes Iega Widife Trade Meeting,

15 U.S. Department of State ILEA Gaborone 1

16 Coective Action: Fighting Networks with Networks NET-CENTRICITY & PARTNERSHIPS 1