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In May 1964, the leaders of four riparian nations—Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria—signed the Fort-Lamy Convention, formally establishing the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). Headquartered in N'Djamena, the commission was created to regulate and manage the sustainable utilization of water and other natural resources in the Lake Chad basin. The initial treaty mandated that member states collect hydrological data and refrain from undertaking any unilateral water diversion projects without prior notification to the commission. Although the Central African Republic joined the commission later in 1994, and Sudan was admitted in 2008, the founding membership in 1964 was strictly limited to the four countries bordering the lake directly.
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The four founding member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission were required to obtain prior commission notification before collecting hydrological data.
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