The scrubby Savannah and semi-tropical border areas between Cameroon and Central African Republic have become such a crime hub that defense ministers of the two countries have made an alliance. The large border areas linking Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), and Chad are increasingly becoming one of the world’s unknown crime hubs, according to a top conflict resolution expert in Cameroon. “Armed groups and criminal gangs usually have a free ride along this border,” Emile Sunjo, senior lecturer of International Relations and Conflict Resolution in Cameroon’s University of Buea told The Epoch Times in an email. Some observers have called the region “ungoverned territories” or simply the Congo Basin’s ‘Triangle of Death’—owing to illicit trade and proliferation of small arms and light weapons. “The porous and unpoliced nature of the border makes it extremely difficult for any serious attempts to ensure security. The complex nature of the security threats …