A study titled "Monitoring major biodiversity stronghold in war zones: model predicts Lake Chad remains Africa's most ...

Fidel Amaky, a Ghanaian geopolitical and security analyst and founder of DefSEC Analytics Ltd, writes from Accra, Ghana The United States and Nigerian strike that killed Abu Bilal al-Minuki in a ...

Excerpt: UNHCR says nearly 1,800 attacks killed over 5,700 people across the Lake Chad Basin in nine months. The humanitarian ...

It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie "Black Panther". But "Transaqua" is a very real proposal for a very real problem—how to replenish the shrinking ...

Few political conflicts with environmental roots are more worrisome to security experts than the crisis in the Lake Chad basin. The drying of the most important water source in Africa’s Sahel region ...

The 22 March is World Water Day, which focuses on the importance of freshwater. The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations aim to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Goal number ...

Indigenous people near Lake Chad in Africa have historically used dried cakes called Dihe, made from aquatic cyanobacteria, to supplement their protein-deficient diets. However, Dihe wafers have not ...

This is a guest post by Laura Dimon. Laura is the Africa program intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. The water shortage strains inhabitants of the region and promotes interstate and intrastate ...

Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the ...