
Cattle rustling and insecurity: in the tri-border area between Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Cattle rustling is a major driver of conflict and instability in the Sahel and West Africa. The two groups posing the biggest threat in the Sahel are Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, and Islamic State Sahel Province (IS …