Communities in the Lake Chad Basin face rising violence amid economic hardship and weak governance.

The attack near the Lake Chad Basin is the largest U.S. operation in Nigeria since American troops deployed in February.

President Trump said that a joint operation by U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a top leader of the Islamic State group in ...

Boko Haram, a terror group based in Nigeria, has repeatedly targeted Chadian positions around Lake Chad as part of its ...

Military authorities in Chad confirmed the assault, which took place on 4 May, saying that several of the terrorists were ...

More than 40 Nigerian fishers are feared dead after Chad launched air strikes targeting Boko Haram positions in the Lake Chad ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the world’s shallowest lake; a great inland body of fresh water shared by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. It’s critically important, both economically and culturally, for millions of ...