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

The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which has been in the grip of an Islamist insurgency since 2009 and was hit by flooding last year,

Video shows Nigeria supporting France's fight against Islamists in northern Mali in 2013, not the deployment of French troops to northern NigeriaIN SHORT: Several social media users in Nigeria have posted a video showing French soldiers deployed to northern Nigeria.

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 released on Wednesday by Niger’s defense minister.

The death toll in last Saturday's tanker explosion at Dikko Junction in Gurara local government area of Niger state has increased to 86 people as some of the injured victims died while receiving treatment.

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IT was barely 16 days after President Bola Tinubu was elected chairman of ECOWAS that Abdourahmane Tchiani illegally removed Niger Republic’s President Mohamed Bazoum in a military coup on July 26, 2023.

An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate action taken by authorities or operators to halt the destruction,

Local meter producers in Nigeria are eyeing the regional electricity market in Ghana, Benin, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and other countries in a struggle to

The $910 million appeal marks the most expensive humanitarian crisis in West and Central Africa, surpassing those in Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, according to UN documents. ・United Nations to launch a $910 million appeal for humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria.

A coalition of civil society organizations from the Niger Delta has criticized the Nigerian government’s decision to resume oil extraction in Ogoniland,