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 ...

TAGAL, Chad, April 5 (UNHCR) – Mending nets, cleaning fish and adjusting them over a fire near this lakeshore village in Chad, Abakar Garba Ibrahim says he has his dignity back. "Being able to do this ...

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 ...

MOMBASA, KenyaMOMBASA, Kenya — Droughts, flooding and a shrinking Lake Chad caused in part by climate change is fueling conflict and migration in the region and needs to be better addressed, a report ...

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 ...

Abdoulaye Barry’s “Pêcheurs de nuit,” photographs of night fishermen in Lake Chad, was among some of my projects at Paris Photo. These were part of the special exhibition “Rencontres de Bamako,” a ...