The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has called for urgent and sustained efforts to address the shrinking Lake Chad Basin. He made the appeal ...

N'DJAMENA, March 26, 2014 - Straddling the borders of Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger in West Africa, the Lake Chad river basin has provided freshwater and supported livestock and fisheries for ...

Refugees displaced by Boko Haram rely on the the rapidly-evaporating Lake Chad. ... This could not be truer for those who live in the Chad river basin, which lies in the heart of west Africa.

Lake Chad, which lies on the boarders of the African nations of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, supports a vast ecosystem of waterfowl, crocodiles, fish, shore birds, and grazing animals. The ...

In Chad, a landlocked country in north-central Africa, the widening Sahara desert, plus the Boko Haram crisis, has equaled a major threat to the ecosystem of the Chad River Basin. Lake Chad ...

The Lake Chad Basin lies in the Sahel, on the southern edge of the Sahara. The basin is enormous, covering 2.5 million square kilometers (965,255 square miles), or 8% of […] ...

More flooding is expected in the coming weeks as the Chari River, Lake Chad’s main tributary, swells with rainwater. On Sept. 16, water levels in the Chari reached 6.6 meters (21.5 feet), 35% ...

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 ...