(Bloomberg) -- Italy has been at the forefront of European nations that have seen a surge in immigration from the Middle East and Africa. As more people arrive fleeing war, government oppression and ...

One morning in March 2018, three police officers working for Italy’s elite division of antimafia investigators entered a DHL warehouse in Rome. They were looking for a package that had just arrived ...

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 ...

Cocaine capsules of the type commonly carried by drug mules inside their body A Nigerian trafficking network is now using “mules” to move drugs from South America to Europe, exemplifying how this ...

Prosecutors said the trio brought to Palermo the practices of the "Black Axe" cult, which Nigerian police said carried out ritual murders, mutilation and rape in the early 1990s. Prosecutors said the ...

Italians are blaming a Nigerian cult for the crime sweeping through their streets. The Nigerian cult has been accused of promoting a life of prostitution and drugs in Italy’s dark and narrow alleys; ...

‘Nigerian mafia’: the phrase is strong enough to convey the point of view of the Italian Council of Ministers’ current president, far-right leader Giorgia Meloni. This week, her country is certainly ...

Six out of 10 people who are trafficked to the West are Nigerians. Premium Times investigative reporter, Tobore Ovuorie, was motivated by years of research into the plight of trafficked women in the ...

CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy -- Soaring on cocaine, guns smoking, the Camorra hit squad sped down the Via Domitiana, the road built along the Bay of Naples during the Roman Empire. The gangsters had just ...

A Nigerian woman, Joy Jeff, who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including running a ...

Nigerian industrialist, Aliko Dangote has alleged that powerful cartels undermining local refining are more influential than ...

Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks - Black Axe. Operation Jackal III saw officers in body ...