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Transnational Insurgency and Border Security Challenges in Lake Chad Basin: The Nigerian Perspective

Border security management and defence are crucial to any measure that seeks to check effectively, transnational insurgency and other forms of cross-border criminalities in any part of Africa. However, addressing the issue of porosity of international boundaries, which in most parts allows unhindered movement of people and goods across the boundaries, has become a greater challenge for Lake Chad Basin Countries, especially, Nigeria, Cameroun, Niger and Chad. The fragility of the basin countries security systems and porous borders allowed for armed groups and common banditry to flourish. Thus, …