Jihadists surrounded Ahmat Moussa's isolated village on Lake Chad's shores in the dead of night and then attacked -- with devastating consequences for the fisherman ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...