A young son of Boko Haram's founder has been arrested in Chad, where he was allegedly leading a jihadist cell, according to ...

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

Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, a young son of Boko Haram’s founder, has been arrested in Chad, where he was allegedly leading a ...

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

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

Adam Issa struggled to explain why he quit his fisherman's job to join one of the many jihadist groups holed up in the hundreds of islands of Lake Chad. At the end of another rainy season where he ...

The group's head, Jan Egeland, says that six months after countries pledged financial support to the Lake Chad region, "57 percent of the $2.2 billion needed to meet the most basic humanitarian ...

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

Lake Chad is one of the most important sources of life in the Sahel. Back in the 19th century, a fascinated French military officer described the lake as an ecological miracle.

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 ...