Publication

This report sounds the alarm on the deep reach of transnational terrorists, drug cartels, and other criminal enterprises in West Africa. It examines how, abetted by official corruption, these groups need a badly governed, poorly resourced maritime security regime to sustain their enterprises. It explores the adverse consequences for the US, West African countries and the broader International Community of the continued failure to counter, vigorously and proactively, adverse security, economic, and political conditions in the region.