Environment

Climate change and hunger are driving a refugee crisis in the African countries bordering Lake Chad

Climate change can fall hardest on the backs of the world's poorest people. That's true in and around Lake Chad. The lake, once one of Africa's largest, has shrunk by some 90% over the last few decades. For people on what were or still are its banks in Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, persistent drought is mixing with poverty, poor governance driving food prices higher.

The host of refugees is now housed in camps where US food supplies which are shared out every 7 weeks are meagre and insufficient to feed the growing number of hungry people.