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 ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

The economic benefits of eliminating river blindness in Niger are estimated at $2.3 billion, with 17.8 billion additional ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

A £299million road is set to be built in the West African landlocked country of Niger as part of an ambitious strategy to improve its road infrastructure and promote economic and social development.

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger is also about to leave the West African economic bloc Ecowas on 29 January, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, after forming their own Alliance of Sahel States. Fears for the future in Mali ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth worldwide to eliminate the parasitic infection. Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also ...