Insurgents fund their activities through stealing cows – making it more difficult to address organised crime and terrorism.
Due to a lack of control, drug trafficking is increasing and fuelling insecurity in the north of Cameroon.
Specific measures are needed to prevent Boko Haram from regrouping and gaining ground.
Boko Haram factions continually adapt to new counter-terrorism tactics, so strategies must be flexible and systematic.
Military operations are needed, but haven’t stopped Boko Haram attacks. Complementary non-kinetic efforts must be considered.
Dialogue as part of a broader strategy has many benefits and can help resolve conflicts and tackle violent extremism.
Disrupting the financing and local economies of violence is crucial to defeating terrorist groups.
Cameroon’s main seaport has become a transit hub for illegal exports from West and Central Africa.
Surrounded by countries in conflict, the cross-border area has become a hub for gun-running.
The region needs civil and military collaboration to bolster security and protect citizens.
The country is no closer to settling the destabilising seven-year Anglophone crisis that has claimed thousands of lives.
Lake Chad Basin’s once flourishing fishing and agro-pastoral economies are now threatened by violent extremism.
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