I'm Luca Raineri, and I'm a research fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa Italy. I have been carrying out field research mostly in the Sahel, Mali, Niger, and Senegal dealing with extra-legal economies and the trafficking taking place in this huge Saharan region. This includes weapons trafficking, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and human smuggling.
The people who are close to the current regime are also the very same people who are running the industry of human smuggling.
Neil Howard (oD): And can you tell us a little bit more about the smuggling end of your research?
