NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government ...

The Lake Chad Basin. Historically, Lake Chad is one of the world’s largest freshwater bodies. Until the 1960s, it was the fourth-largest lake in Africa and the sixth-largest lake in the world. However ...

Lake Chad - shared by Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger - has receded to less than 20% of its former volume. Global warming is being blamed, as well as water extraction. The land is parched dry and ...

As the weather in central Africa has become more erratic, Lake Chad has shrunk by 95 per cent since 1960. ... How we’re using these maps is helping to shed light on women’s knowledge. ...

Muhammadu Bello and his nine children used to depend on Lake Chad for their livelihoods. But the former fisherman became a farmer as the waters vanished eastwards from the shores of his village in ...