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The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict

An administration official in the Logone and Chari department and a gendarme officer said suspected jihadists killed six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon's Far North region.

Troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have killed 800 militants, rescued 4,500 civilians since late March

In April, seven East African Community countries agreed to establish a regional military force to restore stability in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where violence by militia groups is ongoing. This is not the first ad hoc coalition of troops deployed in crisis-affected African countries. In 2021, Rwanda and Southern African Development Community (SADC) states sent two separate missions to northern Mozambique to fight the insurgency there. The African Union (AU) endorsed the SADC Mission in Mozambique, but only after it was deployed.

In a landscape dominated by violent extremism and deadly transnational armed groups, the force’s viability is in question.