| Lake Faguibine | |
|---|---|
 Lake Faguibine (spear-shaped) from space, April 1991. The River Niger is shown at the bottom right hand corner, Lake Oro at the lower left and Lake Fati lower right | |
  Lake Faguibine | |
| Location | Mali |
| Coordinates | 16°45′N 4°0′W / 16.750°N 4.000°W |
| Primary inflows | Niger River |
Lake Faguibine was a lake in Mali on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert situated 80 km west of Timbuktu and 75 km north of the Niger River to which it is connected by a system of smaller lakes and channels. In years when the height of the annual flood of the river is sufficient, water flows from the river into the lake. Since the Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s the lake has been mostly dry. Water has only rarely reached the lake and even when it has done so, the lake has been only partially filled with water. This has caused a partial collapse of the local ecosystem.
In 2021, Lake Figuibine was entirely dry.[1] A gas emanating from the dry ground destroys the remaining vegetation and renders the soil unfit for cultivation.
- ^ "Changement climatique au Mali : le désert engloutit le lac Faguibine, la population poussée à l'exode". Multimedia Newsroom of the International Committee of the Red Cross. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-09-29.