Undermining progress

In 1990, at the end of the bush war in Angola and Namibia, we fought criminals and militants involved in trafficking natural resources, who were hiding from the government and police. Of course both these authorities harboured some corrupt individuals: we vividly recall handing over armed suspects to a local police chief in an African border town, only for them to be let out again – with their assault rifles – the day after we left. But now things have changed for the worse.