The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia Operation Jackal III ... under way to gather and share intelligence on Black Axe and other West African syndicates by police around the world.

Whenever Stephan Fuchs starts talking about Black Axe, his desk quickly gets cluttered with dozens of notes, arrows, and diagrams. The co-director of Victras, a Swiss non-governmental organization ...

Nigeria’s deadly cult groups have killed and maimed people ... slogan and language as those of the dreaded Black Axe mafia, alternatively called Aye. From their conversation with his brother, it was ...

Suspected members of the Nigerian mafia sit in the courtroom at the start of their trial. They are believed to be representatives of the Nigerian "Black Axe" brotherhood. Investigators allege that ...

He recently wrote a report on human trafficking and the Nigerian mafia for the Federal Office of Police, which describes how Black Axe has spread in Switzerland in recent years. The report says ...

Under the rigorous guidance of Nigeria, the gang operates within ... The detention of eleven alleged members of the German mafia gang Black Axe provides a window into the shadowy world of ...

NZZ reporting has shown that young Nigerian women are forced ... Mr. Derks, unlike the Italian Mafia or the South American drug cartels, Black Axe is still completely unknown in Switzerland.

The International Criminal Police Organisation has arrested more than 300 people with links to one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks, Black Axe, and other affiliated groups.

she concluded that Black Axe and the NBM were one and the same: “a mafialike organization”. Since then, people in Italy and beyond often talk of “the Nigerian Mafia” whenever criminal ...

The Black Axe gang was involved in "multiple areas of criminal activity" globally, Bavarian police said in a statement. • The arrested suspects all hold Nigerian citizenship and are aged between ...

Black Axe is not the only criminal Nigerian group that had been growing for years, Stephan Fuchs explains. “The Supreme Eiye Confraternity, the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, the Green Circuit ...