With a ballooning population, armed insurgents, climate crisis, dwindling natural resources, and huge socio-economic ...

The region, comprising the four countries that surround Lake Chad -- Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria -- has been battling insurgency since 2009, after a spate of violent campaigns by the Boko Haram ...

The Lake Chad region is in ruins and needs to be salvaged, given the challenges of food insecurity, development obstacles, ...

In March 1994, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) set up the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) – comprising Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, joined by Benin – to combat insecurity in the ...

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – Lack of military coordination and tension among countries in Africa's Lake Chad region are hindering efforts to end a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency ...

Idriss Deby repeated the threat after a new clash with Boko Haram fighters in November in which 15 Chad troops were killed.

Niger has suspended its participation in the Multinational Joint Task Force, and Chad has threatened to withdraw. In March 1994, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) set up the Multinational ...

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Niger State Government on Wednesday announced the rescue of 21 children who were being trafficked through the state to Niger Republic, Sudan, and Chad. Investigations revealed that the children ...