In edition 239 of Afrique Contemporaine, Christian Seignobos examined the cross-border troubles affecting Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Chad. He described the pastoral communities’ crisis, and the traditional leaders and central governments’ attempts to stem gang-related violence. In Mbororo cattle-herding communities, the highwaymens’ banditry has been made worse by a kind of civil war (fitna) between the Mbororo, who own livestock, and those who do not. Mbororo living in the Central African Republic have created armed brigades to fight the highwaymen (zaraguinas), while those living in the Bénoué region of Cameroon’s North Province try to solve their troubles through stoic withdrawal or expiation of past misdeeds.