Lake Chad Basin Commission

The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC or CBLT in French) is an intergovernmental organization that oversees water and other natural resource usage in the basin. There are eight member governments—i.e., Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Algeria, the Central African Republic, Libya, and Sudan—chosen for their proximity to Lake Chad.[1][2]

The organization's secretariat is located in N'Djamena, Chad. The LCBC is Africa's oldest river or lake-basin organization. In its founding document (the Convention and Statutes relating to the Development of the Chad Basin) the parties commit themselves to a shared use of the basin's natural resources. It is a member of the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO).[3]

  1. ^ Ibrahim Bagadoma Mahamadou, La commission du bassin du lac Tchad - Structure probante ou coquille vide ?, Mémoire de géopolitique du Collège interarmées de défense, sous la direction de Mikail Barah, mars 2007, 28 p.
  2. ^ Lars Wirkus, Volker Böge, Afrikas internationale Flüsse und Seen. (PDF; 1,38 MB) German version
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