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Floods Across Africa's Sahel: Natural Hazards

eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/17000/17215/Chad_TMO_2006255_lrg.jpg September 12, 2006 (3.03 MB) A tangle of rivers weaves across the uneven landscape of southwestern Chad, creating the wetlands that surround the Logone River. The backbone of the intersecting rivers in these images, the Logone flows northeast through Chad, forming part of the border with Cameroon, before joining the Chari River and emptying into Lake Chad. On September 26, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured th…