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

With this latest effort, the total number of returnees from Niger Republic now stands at 1,272. Speaking at the reception exercise held at the Immigration Training School in Kano, NCFRMI Federal ...

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 ...