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 ...

He said Lake Chad’s surface area has reduced by 90 percent from 25,000 square kilometers in 1960, but the population depending on the lake for their livelihoods has increased from 3.5 million to ...

Among them is Boko Haram, which has sown terror around Lake Chad for some 15 years. Founded in Nigeria at the beginning of ...

In 2015, the four countries bordering the lake — Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria — joined with Benin to reactivate the MNJTF, which was set up in 1994 but had been largely dormant.

Earlier this year, Buhari connected Lake Chad to regional security concerns at the African Union terrorism conference. At the Paris climate summit in 2015 the Lake Chad Basin Commission, a regional ...

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 ...

Historically, the lake has varied greatly in volume due to its shallow bottom and large surface area. In the dry season, Lake Chad becomes mostly a large marsh, which then recharges on average to a 5 ...

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 ...