Chad: Kidnappings in Chad Could Spark Regional Security Crisis

The Chad-Cameroon-CAR border area is a powder keg of crime that needs swift action from all three governments.

Kidnappers have terrorised Chad’s southern Mayo-Kebbi West and Logone Oriental provinces for over two decades. Between 2020 and 2023, the number of victims and the overall amount paid in ransom by their families rose sharply, according to research by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).

Local non-governmental organisations in the two provinces told the ISS that in 2022, 46 people…