Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

where the Aïr Massif meets the great sand seas of the Sahara, the commander's men had won the greatest victory of their two-year rebellion against the Niger government. The rebels, all ethnic ...

Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries in Africa’s Sahel region that Western nations could partner with to beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara ...

Documents published by the Emerging Africa Group on various contracts engaged by the Niger State Government show that the ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70's and had lived in Niger for over two decades, according to ...

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

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 ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend were released in Niger, officials said.

BAMAKO, Mali -- A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last ...