Sahel, Lake Chad ambassadors meet in Borno over security, trade

From Timothy Olanrewaju, Maiduguri
Ambassadors and diplomats from the Sahel and Lake Chad countries have converged on Borno State to discuss security and trade cooperation in the region.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Amb. Sola Enikanolaiye, said the two-day high-level retreat of Nigerian ambassadors and diplomats from the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin countries was organised to develop practical solutions to the region’s critical challenges.
He said the Sahel and Lake Chad regions were plagued by terrorism and violent extremism, transnational organised crime, irregular migration, climate change, environmental degradation, humanitarian crises and geopolitical competition....