Tag: Niger

The UNSC will hold an emergency session on the situation in Mali on Wednesday afternoon after a meeting was requested ...

The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board has approved support for Burkina Faso and Niger under its Rapid Credit Facility to ...

Boko Haram militants killed 92 Chadian soldiers and wounded 47 more in the deadliest attack ever on the country’s military, ...

At least 23 people died in a stampede as Nigerian refugees rushed to get food and clothes in a community ...

About 70 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military camp in Niger near the border with Mali on ...

Jihadist violence in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso has forced nearly 1 million people to flee their homes, destroyed fragile ...

Nigeria and neighbouring countries Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border patrol force to tackle smuggling ...

Twelve soldiers in southeastern Niger were killed and eight wounded in an overnight attack by gunmen likely belonging to Islamist ...

Police found nearly 300 people held in captive in an Islamic school in Daura area of Katsina.

On a dusty patch of land on the outskirts of the capital Niamey, Niger's most famous comedian Mamane shows off ...

Islamic State jihadists in south-western Niger have killed seven leaders of the Tuareg ethnic group in less than three months, ...

A report by Oxfam and DFI said the vast majority of West Africans were "denied the most essential elements of ...

Nigeria and Benin signed a landmark African trade accord on Sunday ahead of the deal's official launch at the African ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Niger to participate in the Africa Union Summit which starts on Sunday.

The 35th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) is meeting in Niamey, Niger.

Security forces in southeast Niger shot dead four suicide bombers from the Boko Haram jihadist group as they prepared to ...

The death toll from a May 6 tanker truck explosion near the international airport in Niger's capital has risen to ...

Niger's top court has outlawed the practice of keeping women as maids and sex slaves known as "fifth wives," capping ...

Niger said Wednesday it had killed 33 Boko Haram "terrorists" and seized vehicles and weapons in an operation in the ...

Rescue teams, fishermen, navy and police experts were searching Thursday for 43 people, most from Benin, missing after an overloaded ...