The extended closure has fuelled the smuggling by boat of migrants as well as licit commodities across the Niger Rive ...

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has announced it has suspended work in the north Burkina Faso city of Djibo. In ...

Gunmen, suspected to be armed bandits, have killed three people between Bangi and Kotonkoro in the Mariga local government ...

Niger's military authorities have banned rice, cereal and other food exports to all countries except fellow junta-led Burkina ...

Niger will not export any uranium in 2024 due to several factors. Uranium typically makes up 15 to 20% of Niger's exports, significantly more than other products. Following the coup in July 2023, the ...

On October 10, Niger’s junta leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, signed a decree provisionally removing Nigerien nationality ...

Ten years to the day after the formal launch of the U.S.-led operation against the Islamic State, the United States and its ...

Analysis - Wagner - renamed Africa Corps - heavy losses in Mali, July 2024, were widely publicized. But not those of new mercenaries of Syrian origin deployed in the Sahel by Turkey in Niger.

The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch for West Africa, has publicized its da’wah ...

Medical charity MSF on Monday announced it has suspended work in the north Burkina Faso city of Djibo as Jihadist groups step up attacks.

In the border region between Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso lies a network of protected areas that form one of the largest ...