Lake Chad Basin Climate-Security Talk: A new online dialogue warns that climate change, violent extremism and displacement are piling pressure across the Lake Chad Basin—yet it could also push countries toward stronger cross-border cooperation on migration and conflict prevention. Chad-Togo Digital Farming Link: A Chadian delegation visited Lomé to study Togo’s digital agriculture tools, including SIHAM hydro-agrometeorological data and early-warning platforms, with results showing tens of thousands of climate bulletins reaching farmers and women. World Lake Day, Nigeria Focus but Regional Lessons: Nigeria’s Navy and environment officials used World Lake Day to flag lake shrinkage drivers like pollution, over-extraction and solid waste, calling for ecosystem resilience and public stewardship—issues that echo across the Lake Chad region. Lake Chad and Conflict Livelihoods: A feature explains how changing water and seasons reshape fishing, farming and grazing, raising competition pressures without automatically causing conflict. Chad Refugee Integration Pressure: Reporting highlights how Sudan’s war is turning Chad’s refugee crisis into a longer-term integration challenge, with education, jobs and land access now central to reducing tensions. Biodiversity in Chad: A Rusty Lark was rediscovered in central Chad after nearly a century, with modern photos and filming from the Abou Telfane reserve.