In 1823, British explorers Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham and Walter Oudney were some of the first Europeans to document the lake and the surrounding kingdoms. He was struck at the sight of one of ...

When British explorer Hugh Clapperton reached Lake Chad in 1823, he encountered one of Africa’s largest inland lakes, but two centuries later, it has lost about 90% of its surface area, putting ...

France handed the garrison at Abéché in Africa, back to the Chadian state. Nobody was pushed out and nobody walked in uninvited.

People living in Chad’s Lake Province are bearing the brunt of climate change. The region and the communities that have ...

A study titled "Monitoring major biodiversity stronghold in war zones: model predicts Lake Chad remains Africa's most important wetland for waterbirds" estimates that Lake Chad supports nearly 2.5 ...

St. Daniel Comboni’s desire of a Catholic and universal mission, has become a reality in Deressia, in southern Chad, thanks ...

In 2016, just 25 scimitar-horned oryx were flown from Abu Dhabi to Chad, marking the first time the species had set foot in the wild since it vanished there in the 1980s. Since then, according to ...

Chad’s armed forces are reputedly among the best-trained in the region – Copyright AFP – Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) were at loggerheads on ...

Two of six critically endangered black rhinos have died of unknown causes five months after being flown from South Africa to Chad in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals, officials said ...