The 171-mile road will link the city of N'guigmi with Koulele and Django, and is part of a strategy to improve the road ...

Niger just announced its elimination of river blindness. In 1976, the disease had a prevalence rate in the country of 60%.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating onchocerciasis-- also known as 'river blindness' -- a parasitic disease caused by a ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

The cost of a daily nutritious diet in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is 110% higher than the west African region’s daily ...

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region—notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger—have put pressure on western ...

China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is "the fifth ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...