Sudan's civil war has overwhelmed a border town in neighboring Chad. Nearly a quarter-million refugees have arrived in Adre ...

However, the term also tends to conflate JAS with the separate – and rival – Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP). Both groups are active in the Cameroon border region. Northern Cameroon is ...

By: Bamigboye AbiodunIN recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, has witnessed a growing wave of anti-imperialist ...

The Senegal women’s basketball team has had to cancel a training camp it had scheduled in the United States after some ...

On World Refugee Day, displaced Africans face the worst conditions yet as conflict and disasters increase, aid plummets and borders tighten.The number of displaced Africans has doubled since 2018. For ...

Analysis - On World Refugee Day, displaced Africans face the worst conditions yet as conflict and disasters increase, aid ...

5 May 2025, Cameroon – In a significant effort to strengthen inclusive water governance across one of Africa’s most fragile regions, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and IUCN have released the ...

Islamic State West Africa Province ... have frustrated the insurgents' financing and access to capability-enhancing materials of this nature. ... Adebayo, Research Consultant, Lake Chad Basin, ISS.

While state armed forces in Africa have for years used drones, including in Ethiopia and Mali, observers have long warned about the danger posed by non-state actors acquiring and adapting the ...

The Lake Chad Basin lies in the Sahel, on the southern edge of the Sahara. The basin is enormous, covering 2.5 million square kilometers (965,255 square miles), or 8% of […] ...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are gaining traction in Sub-Saharan Africa, with investment growing by approximately 15% annually since 2012. However, funding remains a fraction of what is needed to ...

Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Home to over 200 ethnic groups who speak over 100 languages, it is not hard to see why Chad has earned the ...