The lake's shoreline stretches over 2,000 miles and it is home to around 1,000 islands, some of which are inhabited.

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Sakkie Spangenberg has been running his boat operation since 1997, and in those 25-plus years he has also rescued more than ...