It is estimated that 17 million people are directly suffering from effects of the humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin – with 7 million going hungry. Numerous factors are contributing to this, including disease, climate change, a sudden increase in population, corruption and violent extremism.

Niger’s Diffa region sits in the southeast of the country, near to the border with Nigeria. After a series of attacks from Boko Haram, the Niger government has put a number of restrictive measures in place, in an attempt to limit the militant groups finances. Authorities in Diffa have banned the trade...