Climate change, extremism and displacement intersect in a fragile African region.
Boko Haram’s growing reliance on its Cameroonian leaders is fuelling attacks in the country and strengthening the group’s resilience.
Armed groups’ evolving tactics and alliances will test the resolve of West African countries to cooperate with AES states.
This report maps how criminal networks and armed conflict intersect across Cameroon's crisis zones, and offers recommendations to curb them.
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.
The ADF’s resilience stems from kidnapping economies, forced recruitment and governance failures that military operations cannot address alone.
International and local experience shows that targeted leader killings tend to have more symbolic than practical impact.
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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