Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70's and had lived in Niger for over two decades, according to ...

Niger has for many years battled a jihadi insurgency ... back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara Desert. The country has severed decades-long military ties with the West ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — 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 ...

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70s and had lived in Niger for more than two decades ...

Starting with a heavy-duty tubular chassis and carbon fiber body panels, Ford’s Dakar Rally vehicle was made to withstand ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million ... Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. The Sahara is mostly known for its sand dunes, but it also features rocky ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources said. One of the sources said the woman was bundled into ...

On Sunday, Austria's Foreign Ministry said unnamed gunmen had kidnapped an Austrian aid worker in Agadez, Niger, roughly 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the largely porous desert border with Algeria.