Authoritarian actors play a crucial role in enabling kleptocracy across sub-Saharan Africa. In a new International Forum report, J.R. Mailey (Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime)and Andrea Ngombet (Sassoufit Collective) highlight ways in which global authoritarian powers, Russia and China, provide surge capacity to kleptocratic networks in Africa. Nevertheless, both authors identifycritical steps to elevate civil society’s essential work exposing and combatting kleptocracy in these circumstances.
KLEPTOCRATIC COOPERATION IN AFRICA: HOW RUSSIA AND CHINA UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY
