Decades of crises, climate change, and human pressures have strained its resources Held under the theme “Rebuilding the Lake Chad Basin: Consolidating Gains, Commitment to Peace, Cross-Border ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government ...

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 ...

One evening in May 2025, in the Lake Chad Basin, near the Cameroonian border, 33-year-old Malami*, a low-ranking Nigerian soldier, dozed off behind a makeshift shelter after a day of patrolling around ...

In understanding Borno’s evolving insurgency, analyst Lekan Olayiwola details the attacks, Lake Chad’s geography, and how ...

In a decisive blow to insurgents, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has conducted a precision airstrike on an Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) enclave in Jubillaram, Lake Chad, killing scores of ...

Lake Chad basin - Copyright TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP Kicki NILSSON Lake Chad basin - Copyright TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP Kicki NILSSON Lack of military coordination and tension ...

Ali Ndume,Senator has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intensify military operations against insurgents in Nigeria’s ...

The Chief of Naval Staff (CoNS), Vice Admiral Idi Abbas, has pledged to secure Lake Chad and its surrounding waterways, enabling the resumption of fishing and other socio-economic activities in the ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — At least 12 Cameroonian soldiers were killed Monday night in an attack by Islamic militants on the border with Nigeria, according to a statement from the Cameroonian Ministry ...

Chad has declared two departments near Lake Chad a "war zone", giving local authorities more powers as they respond to an attack by Boko Haram jihadists that killed nearly 100 soldiers earlier this ...