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Going off-road in Chad

Over the past few years the barren plains around Lake Chad in West Africa have become temporary home to tens...

Voices from Chad: “My dream is to…

Voices from Chad: “My dream is to see my children educated”

Ache dreams of something that many of us take for granted: to see her children educated.

Trees – maybe the best thing ever?

"A nation that destroys its soils, destroys itself." US President Franklin D Roosevelt was speaking from bitter experience, as the...

Braced for impact in Chad

Complex problems demand complex solutions — and the communities who live in some of Chad’s more isolated areas face a wide variety of challenges, including droughts, flooding and food crises. Concern is leading a group...

I believe in Concern. My recent trip…

I believe in Concern. My recent trip to Africa only strengthened that conviction.

Concern's Development Manager, Dara Burke, reports on what she saw during her recent trip to northeast Uganda.

Crisis watch: responding to the Sahel food…

Crisis watch: responding to the Sahel food crisis

For over eight months, the people of Niger, Chad, and other neighboring countries in the Sahel region of West Africa...

As food crisis looms in Niger, lives…

As food crisis looms in Niger, lives hang in the balance

On the edge of another major food crisis, Niger faces inflation and food scarcity. This will mean many lives lost...

In the wake of the East Africa crisis, will help arrive in time for the Sahel?

USAID's $33 million dollar pledge to food security in the Sahel region is major progress and will save many lives, but the catastrophe could have been avoided all together if action was taken sooner. The...