borderlands

Borderlands in West Africa are ungoverned: why this is bad for security

Borderlands in West Africa are ungoverned: why this is bad for security: Sahel landscape In many parts of the African continent borders are porous. People cross them to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, hunting and trading. They are also spaces in which human smuggling, human trafficking, gun-running, terrorism …

In the world’s forgotten borderlands, the drug trade helps people survive – but at a cost

In the world’s forgotten borderlands, the drug trade helps people survive – but at a cost: When Jangul’s* village on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was bombed in the war between the Soviet communist regime and the Mujahedeen in the 1980s, it was some opium buried under his house that enabled him to build …