The Politics of the Chad Basin I

Overview

The Chad basin span across 7 countries: Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, CAR, Chad and Sudan. The hydrocarbon deposit in this basin is significant. Nigeria share a border with Niger, Chad and Cameroon with the Lake Chad as a common link. The area around the Lake Chad may contain as much as 2.32 billion barrels of oil and 14.65 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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There are border dispute issues between Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon and ambiguity over the ownership of some islands in the Chad basin being handled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague. These issues have been there since around the 70s and some remain unresolved to date.

Situation before:
Chad is a country that has suffered a lot from civil wars. The most recent civil war ended in 2010 when numerous rebel groups attempted to depose the government of Idris Derby.
In the year 2002, the then governor of Borno state told a presidential committee on National Security that the lake Chad region was plague by an influx of armed rebels and large scale trafficking in illicit arms and children. He mentioned Sambisa game reserved as having been a hide out for Chadian rebels who are involved in an usually violent robberies and banditry reported in most part of the North east. This statement was before the crackdown of Boko haram in 2009 which brought us to the current situation.
The border dispute between Chad and Nigeria were sometimes due to the resources in the Lake chad region of the basin. Chad has been tapping from the basin for its oil production- an oil pipeline was constructed from the Southern town of Doba in Chad to Kribi, a coastal port town of Cameroon primarily for oil export and increased revenue to the government of Chad. The oil in the Lake Chad region is however more in terms of volume and Chad has allocated blocks for its exploration.
Nigeria on its side has also been exploring the Lake Chad region for oil since around the 70s, and it is believed, that a huge chunk of the reserve lies in the Nigeria part of the basin around Lake Chad.

Situation now
It is worth nothing that in 2002, the Sambisa game reserve has been a safe haven for rebels from neighboring Chad. This rebels most have probably metamorphosed to the insurgents the Nigeria state is battling in the region. This rebels are mostly mercenaries and can be used to further a goal by an interest party in a particular domain.
The questions are: who benefits from the destabilization of the Lake Chad region on the Nigeria side? Who benefits from the recent killing of the oil explorers? What the reason for such action? Cui bono? Is France using the conflict for geopolitical goals as alleged in some quarters? Was the conflict used for the Nigeria domestic politics, too? These are question that have different views depending on your political leanings, beliefs and interest

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Oil wey go soon dey useless

The oil in the lake Chad region belong to a common basin. Since boko haram has stopped nigeria from prospecting. The other countries ie Chad and Niger are mining it at the fullest.

aolawale025:
The oil in the lake Chad region belong to a common basin. Since boko haram has stopped nigeria from prospecting. The other countries ie Chad and Niger and mining it at the fullest.

And who do we blame but the same useless northern elite who propped up this monster called BH?

FeloniousFelon:


And who do we blame but the same useless northern elite who propped up this monster called BH?

Not necessarily!

Boko Haram issue is complex with a lot of phantom actors.

SweetJoystick:
Oil wey go soon dey useless

I wrote on this long a go.

Oil demand will reduce but will not become useless.

Moreover, gas is the future and some oil are associated with it.

Mune:


Not necessarily!

Boko Haram issue is complex with a lot of phantom actors.

This is what I have debunked severally here...

BH is first and foremost an Islamic Jihadist organization whose main aims is to declare the entire Nigeria an Islamic State.

The only actors and puppet masters behind Boko Haram is the Muslim oligarchy and Saudi Arabia.

This is the plian truth.

There is nothing like Religious, Political and Criminal Boko Haram - they are all one and the same as Jihad sanctions criminal activities on the Kafirs sanctioned by the Koran towards political domination of the Kafuri lands!

Mune:


I wrote on this long a go.

Oil demand will reduce but will not become useless.

Moreover, gas is the future and some oil are associated with it.

Oil will become more expensive when it is dropped as fuel.

The reason the world is searching for an alternative to Oil is because we have hit peak oil and it is only downstream from here.

The remaining reserves will be used as an industrial raw material and that is when the big money value of crude will be realized

FeloniousFelon:


This is what I have debunked severally here...

BH is first and foremost an Islamic Jihadist organization whose main aims is to declare the entire Nigeria an Islamic State.

The only actors and puppet masters behind Boko Haram is the Muslim oligarchy and Saudi Arabia.

This is the plian truth.

There is nothing like Religious, Political and Criminal Boko Haram - they are all one and the same as Jihad sanctions criminal activities on the Kafirs sanctioned by the Koran towards political domination of the Kafuri lands!

You need some schooling on this :

There's nothing like Jihad. It's just being used for convenience to achieved desired geopolitical goals. Call it political Jihad.

Political Jihad started in the 80s When Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, NATO and most of the gulf nations created Al Qaeda to use as proxy against the Soviets in Afghanistan using the Talibans.

I can't write a book about this, but will make it short here :

Most of these terrorists are created to achieve a covert geopolitical goal eg Pakistan still use the Taliban as an important instrument of its foreign policy. It indirectly use them against Afghanistan and India. The Pakistani ISI handle such a project.

ISIS in Syria are being used to destabilise the Middle East.. removing unfriendly regimes. Libyan Jihadist were used to remove Gaddafi etc

Mercenaries from Chad have been used in Sudan on countless occasion. Sudan has also use mercenaries against Chad.

All the weapons shipment for covert Jihadist weaponization and training come from Eastern Europe and transported via Azerbaijan to intended destinations and terrorists world over. A Bulgarian journalist recently exposed that.

Check Silk Way airline arm shipments, please.

Read on Operation Gladio, please.
Read on Operation North Wood.
Read on a lot of these covert programs and see how the world is being shaped according to how the masters of the universe wants it.

Mune:


You need some schooling on this :

There's nothing like Jihad. It's just being used for convenience to achieved desired geopolitical goals. Call it political Jihad.

Stopped reading right here...

Mohammed's Jihad was first and foremost a quest for Political gain.

FeloniousFelon:


Oil will become more expensive when it is dropped as fuel.

The reason the world is searching for an alternative to Oil is because we have hit peak oil and it is only downstream from here.

The remaining reserves will be used as an industrial raw material and that is when the big money value of crude will be realized

New reserves are being discovered every day.

It stands, oil demand will start to decline by the year 2032 due to surge in EVs.

Transportation is the most important sector affecting oil demand. Gas can used to create almost all the fuels from petroleum using the Gas to liquid (GTL)technology

FeloniousFelon:


Stopped reading right here...

Mohammed's Jihad was first and foremost a quest for Political gain.

It was but a genuine one!

I have no further comment on this.