As the Sahel’s three junta-led governments increasingly turn inward, their absence from regional organizations is hampering counterterrorism efforts across West…
Browsing: Lake Chad
Traditional rulers from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria are organizing across borders to bolster the fight against extremism and terrorism…
Many of the Nigerian security forces who have fought Boko Haram and Islamic State-affiliated terrorists struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder…
ADF STAFF Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar recently said the Nigerian Air Force is experiencing a “Golden Era,” marked by the…
ADF STAFF Months of battlefield losses and hundreds of defections appeared to weaken Boko Haram, but it has not stopped…
ADF STAFF Troop morale was high when the Multinational Joint Task Force launched Operation Lake Sanity 2 on April 23…
ADF STAFF Hunger in Chad typically peaks from June to August in the lean season between harvests, but this year…
ADF STAFF Officials in the Borno state of Nigeria began recording “droves” of defectors from two competing extremist groups in…
ADF STAFF As kidnapping for ransom has become a source of income for terrorists and criminals in parts of the…
ADF STAFF Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa, has fond memories of his childhood in Sokoto. “Growing…