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- proper noun The area surrounding Lake
Chad and constituting the largest inland drainage area inAfrica , with three major streams, the Komadugu Yobe, Logone, and Chari.
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Chad Basin region and engaging in both the downstream and upstream sectors of the Nigerian petroleum industry.
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NNPC increases exploration activities in Chad Basin
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Water from the Congo River in the North can be managed so as to replenish the dwindling aquifers in the Chad Basin.
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On the current status of the availability of gas and condensates on OPLs 809 and 810, which the company is putting so much hope, the NNDC put it at 33 BCF, while the data on OPLs 722 and 733 in the Chad Basin, which were initially drilled by NNPC is being kept by the Nigerian Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) and would soon be gotten.
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The NDDC's ambitious project which could put paid to allegations of the north's sole dependence on the proceeds of oil from the Niger Delta region, centres around the hydrocarbon potentials of four oil blocks; OPLs 809 and 810 located in the Benue Trough, and OPL s 722 and 733 located in the Chad Basin which NNDC paid for.
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Some of the more prominent wetlands include the Congo Swamps, the Chad Basin, the Okavango Delta, the Bangweulu swamps, the floodplains and deltas of the Niger and Zambezi Rivers, and the Greater St. Lucia Park wetlands in South Africa.
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Some of the more prominent wetlands include the Congo Swamps, the Chad Basin, the Okavango Delta, the Bangweulu swamps, the floodplains and deltas of the Niger and Zambezi Rivers, and the Greater St. Lucia Park wetlands in South Africa.
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"The data indicate the importance of this region as a corridor connecting East and West Africa; however, this bidirectional flow of people in the Sahel-Sudan Belt did not erase features peculiar to the original Chad Basin populations ....
Booker Rising 2008
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The absence of L3f2 and L3e5 in African-Americans, and the limited number of L-haplotypes shared between the Chad Basin populations and African-Americans, indicate the low contribution of the Chad region to the Atlantic slave trade. "
Booker Rising 2008
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