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Acknowledgements

This report was drafted by the EUAA Country of Origin Information Sector.

The following national asylum and migration departments reviewed this report:

  • Belgium: Centre for Documentation and Research (Cedoca), Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS)

  • France: Information, Documentation and Research Division (DIDR), French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA)

  • The Netherlands: Immigration and Naturalisation Service, Office for Country Information and Language Analysis (OCILA)

  • Sweden: Unit for Migration Analysis, Swedish Migration Agency

  • Additionally, Colombia expert Jeremy McDermott was engaged as an external reviewer. Mr. McDermott is the co-director and co-founder of Insight Crime, with over two decades of experience reporting from Latin America. A retired military officer, he became a war correspondent working in the Balkans, the Middle East, and then Colombia, including for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph, and The Economist. He specialises in drug trafficking, organised crime and conflict in Colombia. His organisation, Insight Crime, is a think tank that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organised crime and citizen security in the Americas through reporting, analysis, investigations, and policy on challenges in the region.