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The Socioeconomic Impact of the Boko Haram Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region

In: Terrorism and Developing Countries

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  • Cecilia Idika-Kalu

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The Lake Chad Basin (LCB), in West Africa, is surrounded by three countries with shared borders. In the previous years, the Lake Chad Basin was a flourishing area, as a result of the opportunities presented by the lake for livelihood, agriculture, tourism, and access to markets and trade. Severe drought has since decimated the socioeconomic potential of the Lake Chad Basin, but more recently, it has worse impact with the Boko Haram insurgency. The insurgency that started in 2002 from Maiduguri town, Borno State in Nigeria, has spread to the Chad and Cameroon leaving destruction, displacement, and the demise of a once-virile economy in its wake. The insecurity that plagues the region has forced millions to flee their homes and abandon their livelihood and trade around the lake. Major trade routes and markets in the area now have greatly reduced activity, as poverty and deep deprivation hold sway and inhabitants who have migrated or live within internally displaced persons camps depend on aid.

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  • Cecilia Idika-Kalu, 2020. "The Socioeconomic Impact of the Boko Haram Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region," Chapters, in: Syed Abdul Rehman Khan & Zhang Yu (ed.), Terrorism and Developing Countries, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:199240
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89905
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    Keywords

    Lake Chad Basin; Boko Haram; economy; insurgency; poverty; displacement;
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    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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