Tag: Lake Chad

The United States is winding down its military operations in Niger ahead of a mid-September deadline agreed with the country’s ruling military junta. The landlocked...

In October 2023, Boko Haram’s JAS faction (Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad) launched major offensives against the group’s other faction – Islamic State West Africa...

Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence jumped by 20 percent in the past year, claiming more than 23,000 lives—a new record. Over 80 percent...

Terror groups in the Sahel are becoming more resilient, making it hard for governments and their partners to degrade them. As the region explores...

As Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda leaders have been targeted and eliminated internationally, the terrorist groups have expanded and consolidated their African operations. According...

Musa Barkame once made his living transporting goods by boat across Lake Chad to markets in Nigeria. All that ended when Boko Haram arrived...

The devastation caused by Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin is not limited to deaths and displacements. It includes severe disruptions to economic...

At least 26 Chadian soldiers were killed by suspected Boko Haram assailants following an attack on a patrol in the Lake Chad area, army...

Together with ongoing insecurity and humanitarian crises, the region faces vaccine shortages, hesitancy and fake doses. For those living in Boko Haram-affected areas of the...

In the early 2010s, when Boko Haram started its hit and run attacks on military bases and personnel, it was hard to imagine that...

Traders in Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon aren’t asking for water but protection and access to credit. The Boko Haram crisis in the Lake Chad...

The fact that thousands have left the group is an advantage, but only if they are properly reintegrated. In the highly volatile Lake Chad Basin...

Terrorism has disrupted a thriving regional trade hub sustained by generations of boat drivers. The Boko Haram insurgency has had devastating consequences on Lake Chad...

Military interventions have failed to end a violent insurgency and humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin. The recent brutal murder of over 100...

As countries in the region navigate the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, their governments should learn lessons from the management of the crisis so...

Niger will serve on the United Nations (UN) Security Council from January 2020 for a two-year term as a non-permanent member, alongside two other...

Civil society organisations working to prevent violent extremism in the Lake Chad Basin are numerous, and receive continued financial support from donors. In addition...

In the Lake Chad Basin region, which includes Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, economic viability and control is as important to extremist groups’ resilience...

West African troops killed 42 suspected Islamic State fighters during a battle in the Lake Chad region on June 21, the heaviest death toll...

Around 300 suspected Boko Haram militants swarmed onto a Lake Chad island in Cameroon’s far north killing 24 people, including 16 Cameroonian soldiers, officials...

Boko Haram attacks in Chad have increased since 2018, calling into question the effectiveness of national military responses to counter violent extremism. A raid...

More than $1 billion in fresh aid is likely to be pledged at a donor conference to the drought-plagued region around Lake...

Boko Haram's split in 2016 saw the emergence of two distinct jihadist movements, with divergent operating methods, in the Lake Chad region....

With an ability to hop across borders and exploit weak spots in the four countries surrounding Lake Chad, Boko Haram took advantage...

From the shores of Lake Chad, Islamic State's West African ally is on a mission: winning over the local people. Digging wells, giving...

While governments' efforts in Africa's Lake Chad Basin have diminished Boko Haram's combat capacity in the region, the terrorist group has changed...

The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - soared since last year,and could...

Boko Haram militants killed at least 30 fishermen in raids on communities around Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, the governor of Borno...

Aid agencies must get food to close to 3 million people by July to avert a famine in Africa's Lake Chad region...

Boko Haram's latest incursions in Cameroon and Nigeria, specifically in the towns of Mora, Madagali and Maiduguri, claimed many victims – both...

Women in the Lake Chad basin have been forced to sell sex to survive due to an insurgency by Boko Haram...

Up to a million people around West Africa's Lake Chad are cut off from humanitarian aid by Boko Haram despite a regional...

Nine million people urgently need aid in north-east Nigeria and nearby countries, as political violence and mass migration have caused a humanitarian...

The world must not forget about the impact of the Boko Haram insurgency on West Africa's Lake Chad region where 100,000 people...

A series of suicide bombings in Lake Chad in recent months, blamed on Boko Haram militants, has hindered healthcare and aid delivery...

Four female suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of Koulfoua on Lake Chad on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and injuring...

Four female suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of Koulfoua on Lake Chad on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and injuring...

Chad's national assembly extended a state of emergency in the western Lake Chad region by four months on Wednesday following a double...

The Islamist guerrillas of Boko Haram have made the swamplands of Lake Chad, where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria...

Chad said on Thursday its forces had killed 117 Boko Haram insurgents during a two-week military campaign aimed at clearing islands on...

At least 13 suspected Boko Haram militants and three civilians were killed in separate attacks over the weekend after the insurgents raided...

A wave of attacks by Islamist insurgents Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and the islands of Lake Chad has forced tens of...

Suspected Boko Haram militants aboard a motorboat attacked an island in Lake Chad overnight, killing several children who were koranic students, security...

Niger has evacuated thousands of Nigerian refugees sheltering from Boko Haram fighters on Lake Chad's Karamga island, a military official told Reuters...

A regional governor in southern Niger on Thursday ordered the evacuation of the West African nation's inhabited islands on Lake Chad following...

Niger's army is fighting to recapture an island in Lake Chad after it was seized by hundreds of Boko Haram militants aboard...

Boko Haram militants attacked an island on Niger's side of Lake Chad late on Friday and heavy fighting ensued as the army...