Climate change fuelling conflict in Lake Chad Basin: Report

Shrinking natural resources due to adverse weather heightening tensions, says human rights group

Lake Chad's forgotten crisis

Ecological degradation in the Chad Basin has triggered Africa's latest humanitarian crisis. It's time, the basin countries looked beyond the …

Tracing the roots

Climate change, conflict: What is fuelling the Lake Chad crisis

Climate change, religious conlficts and economic crisis have taken toll on people and environment 

Nigeria hunger crisis deepens, spills over into Lake Chad Basin

Some 7.1 million people are now severely food insecure across Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria

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Climate change is biggest global threat for young people in Africa, Europe: Survey

Africa remains the most vulnerable continent despite its low contribution to greenhouse gas emissions; hence, climate interventions must focus on …

Book review: Oil on the brain

Book>> Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli Broadway Books New York 2008

State of the Climate in Africa 2021: High water stress to displace up to 700 million Africans by 2030

Extreme weather and climate change are undermining human health and safety, food and water security and socio-economic development in Africa

Unfair fields: Asymmetric WTO rules let US inflate cotton subsidies must be reformed

Cottton farmers in India and other Global South countries, like the Afican C-4 of benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, at peril …

Somewhere over the rainbow… climate impact is visible

India, 5 African countries may see a lot more rainbow days due to increased precipitation, finds study  

Fossilised fish bones from Africa are fertilising the Amazon forest

Study shows that dust containing phosphorous from fish fossils helps photosynthesis in the Amazon region

How effective is the global polio eradication drive?

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …

World Bank to assist Chad

Ivory trade

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WTO says US failed on subsidies

Environmental crimes threaten global security, says UN

Illegal forestry and ivory products worth up to US $213 billion a year are helping fund terrorists, militants and criminals

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