Over $150 million dollars have been pledged by Germany and Norway to Africa’s Lake Chad Region, to aid the humanitarian crisis occurring due to violence, poverty and climate change.
These decisions were made at an international donor conference in Berlin yesterday, with promises made to stabilise the surrounding states of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas spoke at this conference, stressing the importance of the Lake Region as an economic hub between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.