The floods caused the deaths of 396 people throughout the course of 2024, as confirmed by Interior Minister Mohamed Toumba.

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

Nearly 400 people died in Niger and more than 1.5 million others were affected by floods triggered by last year’s exceptionally torrential rains, according to a final toll announced on Saturday.

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ...

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Beijing’s backing of Niger’s military junta is not an isolated policy. In the Sahel – a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert – China is also supporting the military juntas of ...

The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as ...

In military junta-led Niger, a commission recommended a five-year transition to democratic rule. The junta's initial ...

A national committee to chart Niger's future proposed Thursday that the junta-ruled country return to civilian administration ...

Niger’s National Conference has submitted a proposal to return the country to non-military rule after a five-year transition period during which the current military government will stay in power ...

NIAMEY, Niger — As Islamist extremist groups have wrested large swaths of territory from government control in the Sahel, young men have streamed into their ranks, often compelled more by ...