France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

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 ...

Chance discoveries while traveling give another dimension to what’s been planned and researched. So often it’s the unexpected things that are best remembered and inspire a return visit. In 2024, I had ...

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 ...

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

Niger has for many years battled a jihadi insurgency ... beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara Desert. The country has severed decades-long military ties with ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger's Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known ...

The peoples of the large area watered by the Benue and the Niger rivers had historically ... not sealed off from the outside world. The Sahara desert had not always been a barrier between the ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million ... Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. The Sahara is mostly known for its sand dunes, but it also features rocky ...

which lies on the edge of the Sahara desert. Austria's European and International Affairs Ministry said on Sunday its embassy responsible for Niger had been informed about the possible kidnapping.