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Strategies based on purely military operations can often alienate the very populations they aim to protect.<\/p>\n
The defence agreement signed by Chad and Cameroon on 23 September is a welcome step in securing their more than 1 000 km border, but needs the buy-in of affected communities.<\/p>\n
Insecurity in the border area takes the form of Boko Haram violence, inter-communal rivalries and various types of organised crime such as kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling, arms, drug and human trafficking, and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Strategies based on purely military operations can often alienate the very populations they aim to protect. The defence agreement signed by Chad and Cameroon on 23 September is a welcome step in securing their more than 1 000 km border, but needs the buy-in of affected communities. Insecurity in the border area takes the form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214925,"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":[258,256,1900,377,4699,52962,6874,40347,6947,257,7530,7047,6627,254],"class_list":["post-214924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-cameroon-news","tag-chad","tag-chadcameroon","tag-defence","tag-element","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-pact","tag-power","tag-soft","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/214924","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=214924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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