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

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against rising ...

The junta-led governments of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have established a joint military force aimed at addressing the escalating extremist violence in the Sahel region, according to a statement ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said ...

East African countries have plenty to offer Western miners in the coming years, notably the relative absence of strongarm ...

The death toll in last Saturday's tanker explosion at Dikko Junction in Gurara local government area of Niger state has ...

The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has executed the village head of Malam Boulamari, a locality in Niger's Diffa region.

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup.

Two days after scores of people were burnt to death or injured when a fallen petrol tanker exploded in Niger State, another tanker fell in Bida town of Niger State on Monday. However, Fatimah Mohammed ...

Junta-led Burkina Faso and Niger are battling Islamist militant groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, whose insurgencies have destabilised Sahel states in West Africa over the past decade.

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 ...

Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries in Africa’s Sahel region that Western nations could partner with to beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara ...