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 Initiative) highlight ways in which global authoritarian powers, Russia and China, provide surge capacity to kleptocratic networks in Africa. Nevertheless, both authors identify critical steps to elevate civil society’s essential work exposing and combatting kleptocracy in these circumstances.
