Those depicted have no direct relation to wildlife crime. Recently elected Kenyan Deputy President, the Honourable Rigathi Gachagua, appears to be on the verge of having 2021 money laundering charges…
It was a mistake. Ten tons of ivory and 190 kilograms of rhino horn sold over a seven year period, according to the indictment. It was actually much more than…
SEEJ-AFRICA: The June 29th, 2022, arrest of Malaysian national, Teo Boon Ching, for wildlife trafficking and money laundering attracted minimal attention besides a few media houses in Thailand and Malaysia.…
SEEJ-AFRICA:This report authored by Shamini Jayanathan, Global Prosecution Advisor to the Environment Team of UNODC, and published through the Environmental Investigation Agency. It can be read in its original format…
The prosecution of Abdulrahman Mahmoud Sheikh and 8 others is examined against the back drop of Wildlife Justice Commission's "10 crime enabling factors". An Analysis by the Wildlife Justice Commission…
The Republic versus James Tipape and 2 Others - Criminal Case 346 of 2015 TavetaIt is a rarity for a decision on a wildlife case in a rural Kenyan court…
KWS Warden II Bajila Obed Kofa KWS Assistant Warden Francis Isaac Awour Oyaro Dear Director,It has been some time since my last letter, almost 2 1/2 years now since you…
Five recent "kidnappings" in Central Kenya may confirm anonymous reports of poached rhinos in Kenya.SEEJ-AFRICA has failed to confirm anonymous reports that in recent weeks two rhinos have been poached…
A March 2021 report, “Kenya a Beacon in Fighting Transnational Wildlife Crime” painted a rosy picture of how Kenya’s fight against wildlife crime was progressing. In the article, the Head…
The ivory trafficking case of "Shetani", profiled in documentary "The Ivory Game" was likely corrupted. It began as a whisper. An ambiguous and innocuous headline, "Court Acquits Two Once Jailed…
Moazu Kromah, Amara Cherif and Mansur Mohamed Surur are responsible for selling hundreds of tonnes of African ivory. This is the story of some of those shipments. Mansur Mohamed Surur…
In the spring of 2015, the conservation world was rocked by three major ivory seizures that occurred within the space of a month. Thailand customs seized approximately 4000 kg of…
Four or more criteria present in a “cartel” case indicates that someone has their fingers on the scales. Sitting in the dock of courtroom 5, Kibera Court (Nairobi), middle-aged Kenyan,…
John M. Sellar OBE is an independent advisor in the fields of anti-smuggling, fraud and organized crime. Between 1997 and 2011, he was Chief of Enforcement for the Convention on…
Has Poaching Increased or Decreased in Africa? On Friday July 10th, 2020, the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) presented the 2020 Wildlife Crime Report in what was…
On March 3rd, 2020, as I was trolling through the twitter news feed for conservation stories I came across "Poaching and the problem with conservation in Africa (commentary)" published by…
I was in Mombasa Court yesterday listening to a case from 2018 where two 'gentlemen' were snagged in a car heading to Mombasa with 37 kg of ivory. (And from…
In October 2018, on the strength of a study paper I wrote on "Courtroom Monitoring - Countering Corruption in Wildlife Crime ", I found myself in a seminar hosted by…
I am going a little off script this week in an attempt to extricate myself from a shit pit I jumped into a few weeks ago with a "President Trump"…
Since my "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" year in Afghanistan, I have become a healthy skeptic of official numbers and statistics. Having said…
MOAZU KROMAH AND THE CASE OF THE WEST AFRICAN IVORY CARTEL In a landscape where the obtaining of false passports, birth certificates and identification cards is simply a matter of…
December 20, 2018The last year has not been kind to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) or perhaps it is more appropriate to say that KWS has not been kind to…
The Appeal Acquittal of Feisal Mohamed Ali: A Victory for Rule of Law, a Process Corrupted, or Both Could it have come at worse time for Kenya’s Tourism and Wildlife…