How did Niger get here, and what's next for the country of 25 million people? From our morning news ... Niger lies in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. This area has been afflicted ...

H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen Heroes’ Affairs and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Erth Zayed Philanthropies ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.

Covering almost 490,000 square miles, Niger is the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second largest on the continent behind Chad. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara Desert.

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also known as river blindness — and the fifth worldwide, according to WHO.

My country Niger is never normally "front page news ... I know these sound like "first world problems" but if I can't do my job, how will people know what is happening? Food is also becoming ...

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 ...

Researchers at Uppsala University have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral populations. The ...

More than 26,000 people who fled in 2015 jihadist attacks in southeastern Niger were returned to their ... branch of the Islamic State group in West Africa (Iswap), according to the U.N. Nigerien ...