The fifth, three-day meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Governors' Forum for Regional Cooperation on Stabilisation, Peace-building and Sustainable Development ended in Maiduguri on Friday, January 31 ...

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.