All boarders are from times in which Colonisation turned ugly put over an area inhabited by several people both settling and nomadic.
The Region is bigger than all of the EU and Mediterranean with clear population centers and even more clear wealth distribution way of The West's structure.
You loos touch with all people or limit Visa and ID checks to international travel hubs like main airports and ports and start securing all populated areas based on behavior rather than paper work. The latter can be perfectly imitated, but behaviour will show character and attitude quickly.
The resources of African nations are facing continues Terrorist Groups activities and an international conflict of industrial nations ready to bring their war onto African soil on every topography urban and rural and that along human and company registration needed enforcement will take away forces to secure main centers of interest and economic growth.
You need a two way system from very secure Lagos Port Business Center Corporation Estates to N'Djamena country side almost anarchist business freedom for small time profit orientated farms and workshops or they crash you having a century experience in abusing system loopholes.
#provos #MIB
Don't get into their game when you can force them into yours.