World Bank: Harvesting Hope: How Communities Are Reviving the Lake Chad Region
Lake Chad, once the sixth-largest freshwater lake in the world, has shrunk by nearly 90% since the 1970s, while climate shocks and armed insurgency have displaced millions, devastating livelihoods and ...
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 ...
The Africa Report: Lake Chad: Better-armed jihadists step up assaults on military bases
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 ...
Global Voices Online: Breaking the cycle of crisis and restoring stability in Africa's Lake Chad region
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 ...
Breaking the cycle of crisis and restoring stability in Africa's Lake Chad region
Mongabay: Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Contrary to popular conception, Lake Chad is not shrinking; new research shows that the volume of water in the lake has increased since its low ...
Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems
MSN: 5th Edition Of Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum Meeting Issues Communique
The fifth meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum for Regional Cooperation on Stabilization, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development (hereafter the LCB Governors’ Forum) was held in ...