© UNOCHA/Michele Cattani
Refugee women prepare food in a displacement site in Ouallam, in the Tillaberi region of Niger.
Niger announced on Thursday that it is to join a key UN water-sharing agreement with its Lake Chad neighbours in the increasingly drought-prone Sahel region.
The development comes ahead of the UN water summit in New York next month, where countries will gather to find solutions to tensions caused by water scarcity.
#LakeChad is soon to be covered by the legal framework of the #WaterConvention thanks to #Niger’s
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