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Via Terra Daily, an article on Lake Chad: States in western Africa’s Lake Chad region and international donors have pledged more than $500 million to help civilians threatened by jihadist insurgents and climate change, the organisers said on Friday. The money pledged by the Lake Chad Basin High Level Conference will “support a coordinated, complementary […]
Read more »Via The Conversation, commentary on the complexities of water sharing in Lake Chad: Lake Chad’s declining water level has been on the political agenda of the Sahel region since the 1960s. The water is shared by Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon though it also affects communities in the larger regional spread of the basin that includes Libya, Algeria, Sudan […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, commentary on the impact that water insecurity is having upon the rise/influence of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region: Key Points The Lake Chad basin suffers from multiple security stressors, including widespread unemployment, poverty and conflict. Rising food and water insecurity exacerbates the tensions that arise from these stressors. Food […]
Read more »Via AllAfrica, a report on how the impact of drying Lake Chad is causing tensions among communities with Cameroonians and Nigerians in Darak village, who constantly fight over the water: REPEATED conflicts among nationals of different countries over control of the remaining water in the drying Lake Chad are worsening insecurity in the terror-prone region. […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, a report on the future of the Chinese-financed, US$3.6 billion ($4.77 billion) Myitsone hydropower dam project in Myanmar: President U Htin Kyaw completed a six-day visit to Beijing on 11 April. During his first visit to China as the Burmese head of state, President Kyaw met with Chinese officials to discuss opportunities […]
Read more »Via BusinessWeek, a look at the unfolding fight over Asia’s rivers: Under President Xi Jinping, China has been aggressively asserting claims to most of the South China Sea, angering neighbors by turning specks of rock into artificial islands. Another water fight could be just as explosive—this one involving fresh water. On Oct. 1, China said […]
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