The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, has said that the recent withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali from the Economic Community of West African States has significantly increased the security burden on Nigeria’s military.

resulting in a deadly war that has spilled over to Nigeria’s northern neighbors Chad, Niger and Cameroon. USAID, for instance, partnered with the U.N. migration agency in Nigeria in its Rapid ...

With a ballooning population, armed insurgents, climate crisis, dwindling natural resources, and huge socio-economic disparity, the Lake Chad region has endured a complex plethora of crises since 2009.

Idriss Deby repeated the threat after a new clash with Boko Haram fighters in November in which 15 Chad troops were killed.

In the Sahel, human rights defenders are being targeted more than ever by the various states, while civic space is deteriorating and public freedoms are under threat. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a partnership of FIDH and OMCT) publishes today a