Squeezed together among strangers, they fidget and stare listlessly at the empty landscape awaiting ... explain the precarious state of Niger. As a landlocked desert country, it has faced ...

A UN report in 2023 ranked Niger among the world's poorest countries. Its development is hindered by numerous factors, including its landlocked location, desert landscape, low literacy rates ...

The Tuareg are a transnational ethnic group spread across thousands of miles of Saharan wilderness and are often romanticized for their desert combat and survival skills. They're 10% of Niger's ...

The Niger army had countered its defeat ... To reach this remote corner of the world's largest desert requires traversing a vast primordial landscape—a place defined by salt pans that take ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country's Interior Ministry said.