Insurgents fund their activities through stealing cows – making it more difficult to address organised crime and terrorism.
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.
The upcoming elections are vital for returning Chad to constitutional rule, but to do so, they must be fair and credible.
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.
The Chad-Cameroon-CAR border area is a powder keg of crime that needs swift action from all three governments.
With an electoral process dominated by the interim president and former ruling party, Chad’s transition is in jeopardy.
Opponents of the transition process plan to boycott the 17 December vote on creating a unitary vs federalist state.
Lake Chad Basin’s once flourishing fishing and agro-pastoral economies are now threatened by violent extremism.
Boko Haram’s regional presence not only drives conflict and instability but impacts heavily on livelihoods.
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