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Sustained pressure and cross-border operations, not sporadic airstrikes, are needed to halt the group’s rapid transnational expansion.

Nigeria and other governments in the Lake Chad Basin region must target and dismantle terrorist groups’ information-gathering and processing systems.

Better water retention infrastructure would enable communities to withstand the region’s many security and developmental challenges.

ISWAP’s hunt for resources is eroding the ability of communities in northern Cameroon to withstand economic hardship.

Nigeria and Cameroon must cooperate to stop Boko Haram from taking advantage of open borders to revive their operations.

Due to a lack of control, drug trafficking is increasing and fuelling insecurity in the north of Cameroon.

Surrounded by countries in conflict, the cross-border area has become a hub for gun-running.

Addressing the terror group’s use of improvised explosive devices must include more intelligence and awareness raising.

Problems with the reintegration of former Boko Haram members make preventing violent extremism and organised crime difficult.

These clashes must be prevented from taking on a regional dimension, as happened with terrorism and organised crime.