Bøger af Basile Anyia Enyegue

Cameroon's Far North region, bordering northeastern Nigeria, receives a steady stream of gruesome news from the border every day. From the beginning of its operations out of Maiduguri, Boko Haram has used the margins as a fallback area and transit space for arms and ammunition from sources outside Cameroon. This region has recently become the scene of an upsurge in attacks by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram. These incursions, which continue to plague the region, target villages, health centers, and positions of the Cameroonian armed forces for supplies of food, livestock, medicines, and weapons. Kidnappings, repeated suicide bombings, and attacks with heavy weapons have become the daily routine of the local population. The resurgence of these attacks proves that despite the heavy military investment, the terrorist threat in the region is still present, and that the Islamist sect retains a significant capacity to cause harm. But how can this renewed activity of the jihadist group in the region be explained?

Terrorism has regained its vitality in the Lake Chad region, multiplying deadly incursions, suicide bombings, looting of property and hostage-taking. In this changing world, a massive, mutant, asymmetrical, hybrid and Islamized terrorism has gradually taken root: the radical Islamist threat, illustrated in particular by the Al-Qaeda nebula, the figurehead of jihadism, is now competing with recently created African groups such as Boko Haram. This transnational phenomenon, which is now at the heart of the socio-political life of the countries that make up the LCBC, is of concern in many ways. Thus, the establishment of the MMF, as an interregional coalition, is the best instrument for fighting hybrid warfare in this part of Africa.