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 ...

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

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 ...

The communities around Lake Chad have always lived by its water rhythms. Now, as climate change impacts intensify, they must find new ways to adapt. The Lake Chad Basin lies in the Sahel, on the ...

The two-day conference, organised by the government in Abuja and the Lake Chad Basin Commission, aims to "save the lake from extinction", according to UNESCO, which is backing the talks. A ...

Fatima, a fisherwoman on Lake Chad, sets out at dawn not just to make a living from the shrinking waters, but to pay a “tax”. Before casting her net, she must hand over part of her meagre earnings to ...

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 ...

Academic and environmental expert Prof. Haruna Ayuba has proposed evaporation suppression as alternative technique to save Lake Chad from extinction. Ayuba, who teaches at the Nasarawa State ...