In 1994, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) proposed a similar project and at a March 2008 summit, the heads of state of the LCBC member countries committed to the diversion project.

Nile Basin Initiative Safe Navigation of Lake Tanganyika Malawi Transfer of Oubangui waters to augment Lake Chad through River Chari

Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second largest in Africa.

In April, 2008, the LCBC advertised a request for proposals for a feasibility study.

He built a fortified capital at Ngazargamu (in present day Nigeria), to the west of Lake Chad.

In the 1960s, a plan was proposed to divert waters from the Ubangi to the Chari River which empties into Lake Chad.

The Kanuri were forced back into their nomadic ways and migrated west of Lake Chad, eventually establishing a new empire in Bornu.

Affected lakes include Lake Songor in Ghana, Lake Nakuru in Kenya, Lake Chad, Lake Victoria (Africa's largest freshwater lake) and many others.

Once it is completed, we would expect the deployment of civilian observers for a 12 month period in order to consolidate the withdrawal and transfer of authority, as was the case earlier in the Lake Chad and the land boundary areas.

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.

Similarly, the Sanusiyya, a brotherhood founded in Libya in the mid nineteenth century, enjoyed substantial economic and political influence in the Lake Chad Basin around 1900.

On the basis of maximum depth, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second deepest in North America (after Great Slave Lake in Canada), and the ninth deepest lake in the world (Lake Baikal is the deepest).

Vänern is the third largest in Europe, after Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in Russia.

In Japan, there is no lake bigger than Lake Biwa.

Chad ( ' ), officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

GIWA has also provided significant input to intergovernmental processes such as the fifty first ministerial meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in 2004 and the Small Island Developing States ministerial conference in January 2005.

It has an area of , making it the third largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore.

Lago Argentino is a lake in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, at .

Lake Taupo is a lake situated in the North Island of New Zealand.

Chadian Prime Minister Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet said that at least 2,500 Nigerians and 500 Chadians had sought refuge in the neighbouring country following the attacks, some of whom were trying to cross Lake Chad in flimsy and overloaded canoes.

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The deepest point in any lake in Finland is located in Päijänne ().

Lake Brienz () is a lake just north of the Alps, in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland.

Varese Lake () is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, in the north of Italy.

In addition, in kind contributions in the form of logistical support, including accommodation and transportation (car, boats, helicopters), are provided by Cameroon and Nigeria in connection with meetings of the Mixed Commission, field visits to the Lake Chad area, the land boundary and the Bakassi Peninsula.

With a surface area of , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, and is also the largest tropical lake in the world.

GIWA outputs have already been used by some GEF projects as a basis for the development of new projects and activities such as those recently undertaken by the Lake Chad Basin Commission and the Pan African System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) secretariat.

Such human rights challenges to persons of concern were addressed when UNHCR relocated camps away from volatile border situations, as was the case with Colombian refugees in Panama and Sudanese refugees in Chad.

Baga and at least 16 other towns are thought to have been destroyed as over 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced, with many feared to have drowned while trying to cross Lake Chad and others trapped on islands in the lake.

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The Victoria Nile drains from Lake Victoria into Lake Kyoga and thence into Lake Albert on the Congolese border.

Okanagan Lake is a large, deep lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada.

In other cases the water may be present in a lake or caldera lake, for example Santorini, where the phreatomagmatic component of the Minoan eruption was a result of both a lake and later the sea.

The priority of the Legion was first Chad, and then Sudan.

The dam is just over long and high.

Hansine Lake is located in the far north.

Lake Edward, Rutanzige or Edward Nyanza is the smallest of the African Great Lakes.

Huacachina is built around a small natural lake in the desert.

According to the author the map shows that Hiawatha traditional hunting territory was located near Rice Lake and did not include Lake Scugog.

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Ms. Odjimbeye Soukate Ngarmbatina, Minister, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Chad

Another 200,000 people have been driven across the border to Chad.

Pinto, independent expert on the situation of human rights in Chad

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Togo.