NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government ...

Ali Ndume,Senator has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intensify military operations against insurgents in Nigeria’s ...

One evening in May 2025, in the Lake Chad Basin, near the Cameroonian border, 33-year-old Malami*, a low-ranking Nigerian soldier, dozed off behind a makeshift shelter after a day of patrolling around ...

BAGA SOLA, Chad, Sept 24, (UNHCR) - Lake Chad isn't really a lake any more. The encroaching Sahara desert has turned most of it into a mass of low-lying islands as far as the eye can see, encircled by ...

Lake Chad basin - Copyright TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP Kicki NILSSON Lake Chad basin - Copyright TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP Kicki NILSSON Lack of military coordination and tension ...

Chad has declared two departments near Lake Chad a "war zone", giving local authorities more powers as they respond to an attack by Boko Haram jihadists that killed nearly 100 soldiers earlier this ...

The Chief of Naval Staff (CoNS), Vice Admiral Idi Abbas, has pledged to secure Lake Chad and its surrounding waterways, enabling the resumption of fishing and other socio-economic activities in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: French President Macron holds a dinner for the 19th Francophonie Summit in Paris N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's interim ...

No fewer than 210 Boko Haram fighters and their family members have surrendered to troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) Sector 2, along the Lake Chad region. The mass surrender follows ...

Dr ChiChi Aniagolu-Okoye, Country Director, WaterAid, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. “Lake Chad, the largest fresh water reservoir, is an ...