Battles and skirmishes have a long history in this border region.
There is a role for the international community in providing humanitarian support in this border region, which faces food shortages.
Since the insurgency spilled out from northern Nigeria into neighboring countries, it has wrought extraordinary suffering on this border region.
"For the American people," Obama announced on March 27, "this border region has become the most dangerous place in the world".
This border region is still plagued by violence, because of Rwanda's genocide and the second Congo war".
For the American people, this border region has become the most dangerous place in the world.
During the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan in late 2001, Masri fought in the 055 Brigade, a paramilitary unit that took heavy casualties covering Bin Laden's escape into Pakistan, according to Rohan Gunaratna, author of "Inside Al Qaeda". Holed up in the border region, the survivors split into two wings, he said.
The UN's refugee organisation is moving some 1,000 refugees a day from the border region to a camp deep inside Guinea.The Guinean army has responded with artillery fire, but this alone has not worked.
But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan.
This in spite of the fact that "crime rates were already down in the border region" before the National Guard was deployed, with border cities like El Paso, Texas and San Diego, Calif.
"They control much of the border region.
