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The ISIS Connection

The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) was established on May 22,1964 through the Fort Lamy (now N’Djamena) Convention to ensure equitable and sustainable management of Lake Chad, while preserving the ecosystem and promoting sub-regional integration, peace, and security in the basin.  In the last decade, the LCBC’s member states—Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Libya—have experienced varying degrees of insecurities ranging from armed conflicts, environmental stress, and dwindling water resources, to terrorism and illicit transnational trafficking.

The epidemic of insecurity in this sub-region is traceable to the nature of politics, structure of the state system, social composition, and the geo-demographic dynamics within the sub-region, which stimulates and sustains recurring instability. Political exclusion and weak institutions of governance have led to violent conflicts and political uncertainties in countries, like Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, and Sudan. Meanwhile, Cameroon, Egypt, Libya, Niger, and Nigeria have emerged vulnerable to radicalisation and violent extremism, and have active presence of extremist groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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