Jihadists surrounded Ahmat Moussa's isolated village on Lake Chad's shores in the dead of night and then attacked -- with ...

After a surge of solidarity in response to the attacks by Boko Haram, global attention has shifted away from the region. As ...

In Chad's Lac province, 96% of the population is illiterate, and young people have resigned themselves to scraping by with ...

Adam Issa struggled to explain why he quit his fisherman's job to join one of the many jihadist groups holed up in the ...

At least 15 confirmed Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacks have targeted military outposts across the Lake Chad ...

Seven soldiers were killed in Chad by an explosive device during a patrol near Lake Chad. Chadian authorities suspect Boko Haram extremists from Nigeria to be behind the attack. Boko Haram, which ...

Lake Chad is one of the most important sources of life in the Sahel. Back in the 19th century, a fascinated French military officer described the lake as an ecological miracle.

The Lake Chad Basin (LCB) region has long grappled with violence, insecurity, and human rights violations, but efforts are intensifying to bring stability and foster development.

Lake Chad has always undergone seasonal and inter-annual fluctuations because it is less than 23 feet (7 m) deep. In recent decades, during wet periods the lake expands up to 10,000 square miles ...

Lake Chad used to be one of the biggest lakes in the world, but its volume has been reduced to a tenth of what it was in the 1960s. The way this lake has dried up has become a symbol of climate ...

The Lake Chad drainage basin depends on monsoon rains to replenish its water, and this rainfall has dropped dramatically since the early 1960s. According to Coe, the outlook for Lake Chad is ...

Lake Chad could become part of the Sahara Desert in the next 20 years, unless water management improves and supplies are augmented, according to a seminar hosted by the FAO during World Water Week in ...