BAGA SOLA, Chad, Sept 24, (UNHCR) - Lake Chad isn't really a lake any more. The encroaching Sahara desert has turned most of it into a mass of low-lying islands as far as the eye can see, encircled by ...

One evening in May 2025, in the Lake Chad Basin, near the Cameroonian border, 33-year-old Malami*, a low-ranking Nigerian soldier, dozed off behind a makeshift shelter after a day of patrolling around ...

It was cold and quiet around 4am on 7 November, when James (last name withheld) shut the door and led his heavily pregnant wife and their two children, under the age of six, onto a narrow path flanked ...