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

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.

A former president of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has described the newly signed Maritime University Act by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as strategic in deepening the peace ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

The official departure from the West African body on Tuesday comes after Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali last year formed their ...

Seybata sits cross-legged on a worn blue mat in a sun-dappled compound in Harobanda, a neighbourhood in Niger's capital, Niamey. Her hands deftly stitch a large calico cloth, which she and a friend ...

Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States regional bloc, due to take ...

Junta-led Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso will officially quit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

In a break from tradition, US President-elect Donald Trump has invited world leaders and heads of far-right parties. Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal ...