Lake Chad - a source of water to millions of people in West Africa - has shrunk by nine-tenths due to climate change, population growth and irrigation. But can a scheme dating back to the 1980s ...

Plunging into a large lake in the East African country of Malawi, divers scanned the rocky coast for aquatic life. Some “large”-eyed creatures caught their attention — and turned out to be two new ...

Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been ...

Perhaps the most worrying example is Lake Victoria. It is Africa’s largest lake and feeds the Nile River, which spans 11 countries and supports more than 300 million people. There are several ...

Perhaps the most worrying example is Lake Victoria. It is Africa's largest lake and feeds the Nile River, which spans 11 countries and supports more than 300 million people. There are several ways ...

Along with much of East Africa, the Lake Turkana region has now had four failed rainy seasons, killing hundreds of thousands of animals and pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation.

This dynamic reflects a broader finding by the United ... Military officials at the U.S. Africa Command said they view climate change as a “threat exacerbator” in the Lake Chad region and ...

Perhaps the most worrying example is Lake Victoria. It is Africa’s largest lake and feeds the Nile River, which spans 11 countries and supports more than 300 million people. There are several ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved on 5 November a package of $17.97 million to Cameroon and Chad to bolster efforts to stabilise the Lake Chad Basin, ...