Lake Chad was the fourth largest lake in Africa and the sixth largest lake in the world: however, its surface area has since ...

Cameroon’s military says it has seized several hundred weapons and combat uniforms that were being smuggled to a hideout of ...

Chadians have voted in parliamentary and regional elections that will end the three-year transitional period from military ...

Chad began voting on Sunday in a general election that is presented by the government as a key step towards ending military ...

At least seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, has been killed in an explosion. The ...

Rustling has grown in both scale and violence. And when perpetrated across national boundaries by actors such as Boko Haram, it demonstrates the terror-crime nexus in the Lake Chad Basin. A recent ...

Voting is taking place against a backdrop of recurring attacks by jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region, the ending of a military accord with former colonial master France, and ...

“The Lake Chad Basin is an important source of fresh water on which more than 40 million people in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria depend.” -African Review of ...

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Chadians are voting in a parliamentary and regional election that will end the three-year transitional period from military rule but which the main opposition is boycotting ...