Farms are prospering as irrigation water reaches fields for the first time in decades. Lake Chad, which was one of Africa's largest expanses of water before shriveling during the droughts, is recovering. The Bank says her story "reflects a broader transformation across the Lake Chad basin." Dead trees in an arm of Lake Chad near Kiskawa, Chad, that was recently flooded. In areas around Lake Chad, farmers have also abandoned their irrigated fields because of Boko Haram, a militant jihadist group that continues to terrorize communities.