Niger’s junta has detained former Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum and his wife at the presidential palace in the capital, ...

The 171-mile road will link the city of N'guigmi with Koulele and Django, and is part of a strategy to improve the road ...

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

An ambush by a "group of criminals" killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger's ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

The same month, militants of an Islamic State group affiliate — known as Islamic State Sahel Province — likely shot and killed 21 passengers on a bus in the Arboudji village, near the border with ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali ... But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the juntas took ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and ...

Chad and Niger, ousted U.S. forces last year and took over key bases that the U.S. military had used to train and conduct ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

The operation, carried out between January 26 and 27, was based on credible intelligence about suspected arms dealers operating from Niger Republic. Troops of the 1 Brigade, Operation FANSAN YANMA ...