Several high-profile terrorist commanders and more than 50 insurgents have reportedly been killed in airstrikes conducted by ...

Innocent OwehNigeria is set to benefit from a new regional water management initiative, following the official launch of the Lake Chad Water Management Action in Bangui, Central African Republic.The ...

Inside a mud-brick hut on the edge of a camp for people displaced by terrorism, an ex-Boko Haram fighter is explaining what ...

Few political conflicts with environmental roots are more worrisome to security experts than the crisis in the Lake Chad basin. The drying of the most important water source in Africa’s Sahel region ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it ...

BAGA SOLA, Chad, Sept 24, (UNHCR) - Lake Chad isn't really a lake any more. The encroaching Sahara desert has turned most of it into a mass of low-lying islands as far as the eye can see, encircled by ...

During an extraordinary plenary session of both the National Assembly and the Senate, lawmakers adopted the resolution with ...

'rendered': 'The Lake Chad Basin has received a major boost with the launch of an €11.25 million regional water management initiative aimed at strengthening water governance, climate resilience and ...

Indigenous people near Lake Chad in Africa have historically used dried cakes called Dihe, made from aquatic cyanobacteria, to supplement their protein-deficient diets. However, Dihe wafers have not ...

This is a guest post by Laura Dimon. Laura is the Africa program intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. The water shortage strains inhabitants of the region and promotes interstate and intrastate ...

Lake Chad, once one of the world’s largest water bodies, and is disappearing due to climate change and population pressures, resulting in a humanitarian disaster in central Africa, the United Nations ...

Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the ...