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 ...

Adam Issa struggled to explain why he quit his fisherman's job to join one of the many jihadist groups holed up in the hundreds of islands of Lake Chad. At the end of another rainy season where he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...