Niger's ruling General Abdourahamane Tiani has been criss-crossing the unstable country's oft-poor highways in recent weeks, ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian foreign ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...

The counterterrorism drones are grounded but the camels aren’t at the U.S. Air Force’s remote base in Niger, where troops still get a taste of the local culture despite a July coup that has ruined ...

AGADEZ, Niger, June 7 (Reuters) - At the bus station in Agadez, a town in northern Niger that serves as a gateway to the Sahara, a dozen men – their faces masked by turbans and sunglasses – clambered ...

AGADEZ, Niger – Daniel knows well the dangers of the route to Libya. As he recalls his journey from his native Cameroon, the details spill out in a staccato of words, fidgets and sideways glances, an ...

A small number of U.S. government personnel assigned to Niger who left the country have not been replaced, but their departures were not as a result of the July 26 coup in which the Nigerien military ...

Ahead of tour dates in Europe and the United States, Mdou Moctar have released video of a special performance in Agadez, Niger, that they filmed last year. A 47-minute video, titled The Agadez Folders ...

(Recasts with details and quotes) By Abdoulaye Massalatchi NIAMEY, June 17 (Reuters) - Tuareg rebels in Niger carried out a hit-and-run attack on the airport of the Saharan town of Agadez on Sunday, ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Swiss citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Niger's city of Agadez, according to local authorities and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. This is the ...