Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that leaves you desperate for a nap to process what you just read. Patrycja ...

LONDON — King Charles met Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday at Buckingham Palace for a brief confab about which little was publicly known — other than that it happened. It went “very well ...

Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa. In Niger a ...

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President John Dramani Mahama has emphasised that the primary reason behind the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger from ECOWAS is a breakdown of trust. Following a closed-door meeting ...

A 14-year-old girl, Elizabeth Peter, from Korokpa in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, has drowned in the Chanchaga River while fetching water. Miss Peter was an SSS1 student of Saint ...

Frank Fraitzl will return to the Bedford Fire Department as its next fire chief. Actually, he never really left. The 59-year-old grew up in Bedford and has lived in town for almost his entire life ...

A communique from his office said the visit to Mali would be followed by similar visits to Niger and Burkina Faso. Speaking after a closed-door meeting with the Malian Transition President ...

The target of this initiative include Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, notably for their separation from theEconomic Community of West African States ECOWAS. Mahama's goal is to unite these countries ...

This phase of the tour will take him to Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, who have left the ECOWAS grouping and formed their Alliance of Sahel states. The president, while in Mali, held a closed-door ...

His interactions with leaders in these countries come at a time of shifting political dynamics in West Africa, as Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso move away from ECOWAS structures. Burkina Faso’s ...