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 ...
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Lake Chad is disappearing. Can Africa’s $50 billion water project protect 50 million livelihoods across 4 countries?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An aborted oil sector audit exposes the gulf between Chad’s commitments and its willingness to investigate powerful interests ...
The new scientific study, “Monitoring major biodiversity stronghold in war zones: model predicts Lake Chad remains Africa’s most important wetland for waterbirds”, published in PNAS, estimates that ...
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 ...
Every year, twice a year, millions of birds belonging to hundreds of species fly between breeding grounds in Europe and Asia ...
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