{"id":3954,"date":"2023-01-28T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:15:32","slug":"where-is-lake-chad-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-lake-chad-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Lake Chad Basin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lake Chad Basin<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lake Chad is located in the Sahel, the vast semi-arid region south of the Sahara Desert.<\/li>\n<li>It is bordered by 4 countries &#8211; <strong>Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Source of the Lake:<\/strong> It is fed mainly by the <strong>Chari River<\/strong> through the Lagone tributary.<\/li>\n<li>The Lagone tributary used to provide 90 % of its water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of the Lake: <\/strong>The Lake is vital for indigenous, pastoral and farming communities in these countries.<\/li>\n<li>The lake has been supporting drinking water, irrigation, fishing, livestock and economic activity for over 30 million people in the region.<\/li>\n<li>The Lake Chad basin in west and central Africa covers 8% of the African continent and is home to 42 million people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are issues in the Lake Basin Region?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% in 60 years, and climate change is a significant contributor.<\/li>\n<li>A 13-year insurgency of the <strong>Boko Haram<\/strong> extremist group and other militant groups has destabilized .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Sahel Region?<\/h3>\n<p>Lake Chad basin and the wider Sahel region.The Sahel is a semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to Sudan. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/africa\/climate-change-fuelling-conflict-in-lake-chad-basin-report-87312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Climate change fuelling conflict in Lake Chad Basin: Report<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Chad is located in the Sahel, the vast semi-arid region south of the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}