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

After a surge of solidarity in response to the attacks by Boko Haram, global attention has shifted away from the region. As ...

Adam Issa struggled to explain why he quit his fisherman's job to join one of the many jihadist groups holed up in the ...

On the eve of Chad's 65th anniversary of independence, President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno delivered a national address reaffirming the country's pivotal role in the fight against terrorism in the ...

In Chad's Lac province, 96% of the population is illiterate, and young people have resigned themselves to scraping by with ...

At least 15 confirmed Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacks have targeted military outposts across the Lake Chad ...

Seven soldiers were killed in Chad by an explosive device during a patrol near Lake Chad. Chadian authorities suspect Boko Haram extremists from Nigeria to be behind the attack. Boko Haram, which ...

Lake Chad is one of the most important sources of life in the Sahel. Back in the 19th century, a fascinated French military officer described the lake as an ecological miracle.

Lake Chad used to be one of the biggest lakes in the world, but its volume has been reduced to a tenth of what it was in the 1960s. The way this lake has dried up has become a symbol of climate ...

Lake Chad has always undergone seasonal and inter-annual fluctuations because it is less than 23 feet (7 m) deep. In recent decades, during wet periods the lake expands up to 10,000 square miles ...

The Lake Chad drainage basin depends on monsoon rains to replenish its water, and this rainfall has dropped dramatically since the early 1960s. According to Coe, the outlook for Lake Chad is ...

He said Lake Chad’s surface area has reduced by 90 percent from 25,000 square kilometers in 1960, but the population depending on the lake for their livelihoods has increased from 3.5 million to ...