France, Nov. 23 -- Africa has become deeply embedded in the global criminal economy, serving as a source, transit hub and destination for various illicit markets - often in overlapping roles.

The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index- released this week by Enact (Enhancing Africa's Response to Transnational Organised Crime), an EU-funded project that analyses transnational organised crime in Africa- indicates that criminality has increased steadily since 2019, while resilience to crime has declined.

Based on experts' assessment of the scale of criminal markets, influence of criminal actors and effectiveness of resilience, the country with the highest overall criminality ranking is the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed bySouth Africa,Ni...