The two entrepreneurs represent distinct forms of business leadership, and governments must create the conditions for both to thrive.
Terrorism, kidnapping and crumbling roads are combining to choke a trade lifeline linking Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria.
Climate change, extremism and displacement intersect in a fragile African region.
Repeated flooding is unravelling years of progress in the region
Located on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, Darak is valuable to local and national economies – and to violent extremists.
Southwestern Nigeria has largely been spared major security threats – now it faces a troubling convergence of drugs and terror.
International and local experience shows that targeted leader killings tend to have more symbolic than practical impact.
Crowdfunding campaigns rescue hostages – but the visibility they generate is becoming part of how ransom demands are set.
The Tsamiya-Kamba corridor will revive regional commerce, but jihadist expansion could quickly unravel the gains.
More displacement in the Lake Chad Basin is caused by climate disasters than by conflict, but the two are increasingly compounding.
Reactive counter-terrorism posture risks entrenching armed groups in a new corridor linking northwest to southwest Nigeria.
New development should not come at the expense of people impoverished by decades of failed urban planning.
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