
9 Dec 2022
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Originally Posted by eurasiaoverland
First time, as far as I can remember, that I hear about kidnapping in Chad, any impressions of who is behind it? The Sudanese border seems a long way from the troubled Sahel region west of Lake Chad.
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Most of Chad's border regions are rather sketchy from a security perspective. The Lake Chad area got a bunch of headlines semi-recently, but all of their borders have been porous and unstable for a long time. For example, in the northwest, the Tibesti region has had security problems for many years, and the gold mining has only made it worse. Keep in mind that's where the (now dead, former) president was fighting rebels. Also, Faya area (in the north) has a thriving smuggling industry from Libya. Its fairly normal to see lots of relatively new, expensive Toyotas driving around with Libyan tags.
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