Better water retention infrastructure would enable communities to withstand the region’s many security and developmental challenges. The Lake Chad Basin faces multiple challenges, including Boko Haram terrorism, community conflicts and poverty. On top of this, it is being hit by unprecedented flooding. Stronger resilience – which refers to the ability of affected communities to recover,…
Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks, and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts. At least 15 confirmed Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacks have targeted military outposts across the Lake Chad region this year. Common to this campaign, which the group calls Camp Holocaust, is that the targets were…
ISWAP’s hunt for resources is eroding the ability of communities in northern Cameroon to withstand economic hardship. Since 2021, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has intensified its footprint in Cameroon’s Far North Region through increased extortion of communities and a spate of brutal attacks on military barracks in Logone-et-Chari and Borno (Nigeria). These twin…
CNN — Lake Powell, the second-largest human-made reservoir in the US, has lost nearly 7% of its potential storage capacity since 1963, when Glen Canyon Dam was built, a new report shows. In addition to water loss due to an intense multiyear drought, the US Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation report found, Lake…
