Nigeria | ISS Africa

Sustained pressure and cross-border operations, not sporadic airstrikes, are needed to halt the group’s rapid transnational expansion.

Governments in the Lake Chad Basin region must target and dismantle terrorist groups’ information-gathering and processing systems.

How has this Sahelian group moved from local self-defence to transnational crime and extremist activity?

The country’s security sector is beset by long-standing challenges that undermine its ability to address violence and insecurity.

New research shows how governments can prevent informal money transfers from being used to facilitate organised crime and terrorism.

New research shows how governments can prevent informal money transfers from being used to facilitate organised crime and terrorism.

Better water retention infrastructure would enable communities to withstand the region’s many security and developmental challenges.

Terror groups have rebounded after past leadership losses, so Lake Chad Basin security forces cannot afford complacency.

Cameroon and Nigeria must take military, administrative and diplomatic action to curb the threat.

Remote, under-resourced bases in border zones have become the group’s softest targets.

The approach of Nigeria’s Borno State shows how to manage more humane, locally grounded reintegration efforts that work.

Better animal waste management and local intelligence can slow the smuggling and manufacture of explosives by violent extremists.