Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 percent ... This makes poverty worse. The shrinking of Lake Chad shows how desertification affects water sources, leading to migration.

The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million ... though most are saltwater. The exception is Lake Chad, which is a vital freshwater lake that supports local communities.

No fewer than seven members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been reportedly killed in an explosion in a locality between Ba’anfani and Koleram in the far Lake Chad Basin ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... evidence for past lake basins in the ...

named Lake Iriqui, [[ee-REE-key]] between the Zagora and Tata regions, where the water has returned, as Nasa images have shown. So, the old desert lakes will come back to life.” Six consecutive ...