Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has emphasized the need for large-scale irrigation farms to combat escalating food insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin region. Speaking at the ...

Lake Chad sits at the end point of this drainage ... They also hope to bring in solar-powered irrigation systems and build infrastructure like boreholes, but they are still seeking approvals.

A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme revealed that Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% over the past 60 years, attributing this alarming decline to climate change, irrigation ...

In its case the main culprits were ambitious Soviet irrigation projects that diverted its nourishing rivers. Africa’s Lake Chad is a sliver of its former self. Iran’s Lake Urmia has shrunk by ...

This is the reality for many people living in Africa’s Lake Chad region. This is not a crisis about a lake. It is a sprawling disaster that covers four countries in West Africa. Over 4.5 million ...

KOULKIMÉ, Chad — Alhadji Yaro was a teenager when Boko Haram militants stormed onto his island in the vast, blue-green waters of Lake Chad and made villagers an offer at gunpoint.

The United States has condemned the killing of Cameroonian soldiers serving in the Multinational Joint Task Force in Nigeria’s Lake Chad Basin. In a statement on Wednesday, the US Embassy in ...

The attack also left over a dozen soldiers wounded and occurred in the Lake Chad area near the town of Wulgo, the ministry said Thursday. While no group was initially blamed for the attack ...

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 ...