Niamey – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched yesterday the Regional Stabilization Facility for Lake Chad, an ambitious multi-million dollar fund to scale up the range of stabilization intervention in areas of Lake Chad Basin.
This states that European The only protected area is the Lake Chad Game Reserve, which covers half of the area next to the lake that belongs to Nigeria. About 20 percent of the total area of the Lake Chad basin, or 427,500 kilometres square, is called the Conventional Basin (42 percent in Chad, 28 percent in Niger, 21 percent in Nigeria and nine percent in Cameroon), overseen by a transboundary body called the Lake Chad Basin Commission. There has been a proposal to supply water from the Congo Basinvia a … The MNJTF can enhance this coordination and ensure that liberated areas are held by civil defence forces that are able to protect citizens. being made in the other regions of Africa, the Lake Chad Basin countries are still lagging behind in their demographic transition. While significant progress is indeed being made in the other regions of Africa, the Lake Chad Basin countries are still lagging behind in their demographic transition. The UN Security Council is visiting the Lake Chad basin to show their support to the four countries in the region in their fight against Boko Haram. These are:The northern half of the basin is desert, containing the As late as 2000, the basin has remained home to large populations of wildlife. Unlike, the classic pat-tern of demographic transition, the decline in child mortality, seen in re-cent years in this region and in most countries worldwide, is yet to induce a significant drop in fertility.
The Lake Chad Basin Commission was set up in 1964 by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, the four countries that contain parts of Lake Chad. About 20% of the basin, lying in these countries, is called the Conventional Basin.
They are exclusive of non-Lake Chad Basin populations that may have impacted by other humanitarian situations in the countries and covered as part of respective Humanitarian Action for Children appeals. Speaking of the potentially far-reaching impact of the Facility during the opening ceremony of the 2nd Meeting of the Lake Chad Governors’ Forum, UNDP Regional Director for Africa Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa said: “With the Regional Stabilization Facility, we have a unique and time-bound opportunity and a collective obligation to restore hope to affected populations, especially women and youth who have been most affected by this scourge.
In the northeastern part of the Benue Trough where it enters the Chad Basin there are marine sediments from the The Chad Basin covers almost 8% of the African continent, with an area of about 2,434,000 square kilometres (940,000 sq mi). On 1 April, Council members issued a press statement condemning the 23 March terrorist attack in Boma, Chad, in which at least 98 persons were killed and 47 wounded, and the attack on military vehicles near Goneri in Yobe State, Nigeria, the same day, in which at least 47 persons were killed.
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Also called the Boko Haram Crisis, the Lake Chad Basin Crisis affects some of the world’s poorest people.