00907nam a22001097a 4500100001900000245003200019260003800051300000800089520057800097650003100675856009100706  aAfrican Union   aIllicit Resource Extraction  aAddis AbababAfrican Union c2018  a9p.  aWest Africa is rich in national resources, and yet illicit resource extraction remains a particularly worrisome category of IFFs. These assets are indigenous to the region; while they play a pivotal role in the formal economy, they can readily be diverted into the illicit economy at various points of the supply  chain  (source,  transit,  sale  and  export), thereby  generating IFFs. Rather than driving development, the story of the region’s natural resource exploitation is one of oil and minerals driving institutional corrosion, instability, violence and conflict.  aNatural Resources, Nigeria  uiffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/case_study_-_illicit_resource_extraction-english.pdf