The disappearing lake: How Africa’s Lake Chad nearly vanished and the $50 billion engineering plan designed to restore it

Lake Chad, once one of Africa’s largest inland water bodies, has lost around 90% of its surface area since the 1960s, leaving ...

Once one of Africa's largest lakes, Lake Chad has lost 90% of its water. Now countries are planning a $50 billion plan to save it

Lake Chad has lost nearly ninety percent of its surface area since the 1960s. This environmental decline severely impacts ...
The Africa Report

‘Winner will decide our future’: Lake Chad Basin caught in brutal Boko Haram-ISWAP struggle

It was cold and quiet around 4am on 7 November, when James (last name withheld) shut the door and led his heavily pregnant wife and their two children, under the age of six, onto a narrow path flanked ...
Digital Journal

Chad, C. Africa at loggerheads after troops killed at border

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 ...
Digital Journal

Chad blasts UN report on troop abuses in C. Africa

Chad has strongly objected to a UN report accusing its soldiers of abuses in Central African Republic in an official letter seen by AFP on Friday. “The government of Chad strongly opposes this report ...
Mongabay

Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings

A new study reveals that colonies of critically endangered Rüppell’s vultures are visible via satellite images. A group of researchers scanned more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square ...
World Bank

Peer Learning for Conservation Success: Global Wildlife Program ‘Twinning’ Initiative Strengthens Collaboration Across Borders

Read how the Global Environment Facility-funded, World Bank-led Global Wildlife Program (GWP) projects in Bhutan, Chad, Colombia, Panama, South Africa, and Uganda shared knowledge, experiences, and ...