Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

A woman and her child walk on the sand shores that surround Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to blame, with populat...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

Near the village of Melea people irrigate seedlings on the dried lake bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to bl...

It took 12 days on foot for Anajow Abane to reach Boroma from Walo, Kamise. 'We fled from fighting and drought,' she said, 'The fighting was bad and they killed my husband and two of my children.'...

Refugees from the fighting in Ethiopia scrambling for bread distributed in the town centre.

A drinks shop owner gives out free tea to refugees who have crossed th eborder from Ethiopia. Restaurant and tea shop owners feel obliged to help out with the situation.

Suldan with her children in their 'kitchen' in an informal refugee camp. Dayis Amin (not pictured) and Suldan have been here in an IDP camp in Boroma with their eight children for two weeks. They fle...

Refugees shelter in the shadows, away from the piercing sunlight when the sun is high.

Suldan with her children in an informal refugee camp. Dayis Amin (not pictured) and Suldan have been here in an IDP camp in Boroma with their eight children for two weeks. They fled from Ethiopia for...