XCEPT’s Horn of Africa research looks at how evolving political centres, digital systems, urban change and gendered authority are transforming governa...
XCEPT’s Levant research examines how border governance, climate‑driven adaptation, and illicit networks intersect across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yem...
On 12 November 2025, a virtual panel discussion explored the captagon economy’s evolving role in the Middle East’s political and security landscape.
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This report explores the future of Captagon in the post-Assad Middle East. Drawing on open-source data and interviews with Syria’s counternarcotics fo...
Communities in the borderlands of Coastal West Africa are part of a complex cross-border socio-economic network, one that is threatened by both violen...
Fuel smuggling in Ghana and Burkina Faso is a high volume, cross-border activity with both licit and illicit aspects that are intrinsically linked to ...
