Located on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, Darak is valuable to local and national economies – and to violent extremists.
Recent terror attacks across Mali have intensified JNIM’s blockades of vital transport routes connecting port cities to Sahelian capitals.
Southwestern Nigeria has largely been spared major security threats – now it faces a troubling convergence of drugs and terror.
To achieve justice and reconciliation, the Special Prosecutor must ensure that accountability appears neither distant nor external to victims.
International and local experience shows that targeted leader killings tend to have more symbolic than practical impact.
Although authorities adhered to the ECOWAS timeline, Guinea’s return to democracy is mired in controversy.
Crowdfunding campaigns rescue hostages – but the visibility they generate is becoming part of how ransom demands are set.
How Benin’s new president ensures inclusive growth, opens civic and political space and rebuilds regional ties will define his term.
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.
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