{"id":201434,"date":"2025-07-02T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/chad-what-nigeria-cameroon-must-do-to-stop-iswaps-expansion-in-lake-chad-basin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:40:37","slug":"chad-what-nigeria-cameroon-must-do-to-stop-iswaps-expansion-in-lake-chad-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/chad-what-nigeria-cameroon-must-do-to-stop-iswaps-expansion-in-lake-chad-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad: What Nigeria, Cameroon Must Do to Stop ISWAP&#8217;s Expansion in Lake Chad Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>ISWAP&#8217;s hunt for resources is eroding the ability of communities in northern Cameroon to withstand economic hardship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Since 2021, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has intensified its footprint in Cameroon&#8217;s Far North Region through<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.org\/iss-today\/iswap-takes-aim-at-the-state-in-cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a><\/strong> extortion of communities and a spate of brutal attacks on military barracks in Borno (Nigeria) and Logone-et-Chari.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">These twin tactics reveal ISWAP&#8217;s goal of extending its zone of influence and replenishing its resources. Governments in the area need&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507020041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISWAP&#8217;s hunt for resources is eroding the ability of communities in northern Cameroon to withstand economic hardship. Since 2021, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has intensified its footprint in Cameroon&#8217;s Far North Region through increased extortion of communities and a spate of brutal attacks on military barracks in Borno (Nigeria) and Logone-et-Chari. These twin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,9745,4698,377,4699,5779,51779,6920,257,4687,254,8652],"class_list":["post-201434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basin","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-chad","tag-expansion","tag-iswaps","tag-lake","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}