Jihadists surrounded Ahmat Moussa's isolated village on Lake Chad's shores in the dead of night and then attacked -- with ...

A counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, has released photos confirming the arrest of the 18-year-old son of the late ...

A young son of Boko Haram's founder has been arrested in Chad, where he was allegedly leading a jihadist cell, according to both an intelligence source and a former insurgent.

After a surge of solidarity in response to the attacks by Boko Haram, global attention has shifted away from the region. As ...

Security forces in Chad have arrested 18-year-old son of late Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf. Zagazola Makama confirmed ...

But eleven years ago, violence swept through his village, turning life into an escape. Homes were burned, boats were ...

Fifteen years after the insurgency began, successor factions of the jihadist group, though weakened, continue to spread ...

He said Lake Chad’s surface area has reduced by 90 percent from 25,000 square kilometers in 1960, but the population depending on the lake for their livelihoods has increased from 3.5 million to ...

Lake Chad used to be one of the biggest lakes in the world, but its volume has been reduced to a tenth of what it was in the 1960s. The way this lake has dried up has become a symbol of climate ...

Earlier this year, Buhari connected Lake Chad to regional security concerns at the African Union terrorism conference. At the Paris climate summit in 2015 the Lake Chad Basin Commission, a regional ...

Historically, the lake has varied greatly in volume due to its shallow bottom and large surface area. In the dry season, Lake Chad becomes mostly a large marsh, which then recharges on average to a 5 ...