Niger lies in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. This area has been afflicted with numerous coups in recent years that have made it the "longest corridor of military rule on Earth," The ...

since he first entered the business in 2001 and continuing even after Niger’s government made it illegal in 2015. The flow of travelers has not stopped, and it will not stop. West Africa’s ...

Niger, spanning nearly 490,000 square miles, holds the title of the largest landlocked country in West Africa and comes second ... along the banks of the Niger River. Niger's infrastructure ...

Starting in the medieval period, a series of powerful kingdoms developed in West Africa. These West African ... descended from the fishing tribes of the Niger River. He captured Timbuktu and ...

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

Niger became the first African country ... culmination of nearly fifty years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. According to a press release by The End ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger will leave the Ecowas group in January but have six months to return. The road could breathe new life into West Africa's regional bloc, Ecowas. The move follows ...