The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

Niger Minister of Public Health Population and Social Affairs Garba Hakimi officially declared at a ceremony on Thursday that the country is free of ...

APC chieftain, Jonathan Vatsa, has stated that the two most lucrative businesses in Northern Nigeria are illegal mining and ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum has spent 550 days as a hostage of the military junta in the capital, Niamey. His lawyers say that his detention is setting a dangerous precedent and have launched a ...

A major journalist in Niger was in custody Saturday, an association said, a day after the private TV channel he runs was suspended following a report critical of the military-led regime.

Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, expressed his heartfelt condolences to the ...

Dublin, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Niger Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report provides an executive-level overview ...

Nigeria's authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group - which flogs people for listening to music - a ...