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Nigeria’s security problems deepen as Anglophone insurgency in Cameroon spills across border

Nigeria’s security problems deepen as Anglophone insurgency in Cameroon spills across border

OVER the past two decades, Nigeria has grappled with multiple and complex national security threats, each posing a significant challenge to its stability. The nation finds itself fighting a violent militancy in the Niger Delta, conflicts between farmers and herders across multiple regions, terrorism and insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and secessionist campaigns by groups such as the Indigenous People of Biafra in the southeast. AUGUSTINE ABOH, PhD candidate in Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts Now a new layer of complexity has emerged in the form of the Ambazonian secessionist group from Cameroon. This…
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