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 said in a bulletin on ...

KOULKIMÉ, Chad — Alhadji Yaro was a teenager when Boko Haram militants stormed onto his island in the vast, blue-green waters of Lake Chad and made villagers an offer at gunpoint. “‘We will ...

Chad, last year threatened to pull out of the MNJTF after about 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base. And the Niger Republic has become increasingly withdrawn since a military ...

In a decisive blow to insurgents, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has conducted a precision airstrike on an Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) enclave in Jubillaram, Lake Chad, killing scores ...

The Nigerian Air Force, under Operation Hadin Kai, carried out a targeted airstrike on Monday at a terrorist hideout in ...

The attack also left over a dozen soldiers wounded and occurred in the Lake Chad ... now Africa’s longest struggle with militancy, has spilled into Nigeria’s neighbors, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

This is the reality for many people living in Africa’s Lake Chad region. This is not a crisis about a lake. It is a sprawling disaster that covers four countries in West Africa. Over 4.5 million ...

A Sahelian and landlocked country in Central Africa, Chad faces security challenges related to conflicts in neighboring countries, as well as the consequences of climate change, particularly the ...