Lake Chad the Yobe River in Nigeria/Niger. Despite high levels of evaporation, the lake is fresh water. Over half of the lake's area is taken up by its many small islands (including the Bogomerom archipelago), reedbeds and mud banks, and a belt of swampland across the middle divides the northern and southern halves. The shorelines are largely composed of marshes. Because Lake Chad is very shallow—only at its deepest—its area is particularly sensitive to small changes in average depth, and consequently it also shows seasonal fluctuations in size. Lake Chad has no apparent outlet, but its waters percolate into the Soro and
Chad–India relations million in 2015-16. Imports from Chad were a mere $150,000 in 2011-12, grew sharply to $157.15 million the following fiscal, before declining by 73% and 52% in the following two fiscal years respectively. Bilateral figures do not reflect the full extent of Chad's imports from India, as the country procures several Indian goods from Dubai, Cameroon and Nigeria. In the 2015-16 financial year, India began importing crude oil from Chad resulting in a 411% increase in imports. Chad's exports to India grew from $62.77 million in 2010-11 to $320.87 million in 2015-16. Crude oil accounted for 97% of the country's