The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-ran West African ...

Na di Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA ... Di police tok-tok person for di state, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, tell BBC Pidgin say di number bin increase to 153 pipo wey die, and about ...

A major journalist in Niger was in custody Saturday, an association said, a day after the private TV channel he runs was ...

Niger has freed an editor-in-chief arrested after his TV news channel aired a programme critical of the ruling junta, the ...

Nigeria approves Shell's watershed exit from oil-rich Niger Delta-but activists are not pleased. Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan receives an early nomination for being the ruling party's presidential ...

A tanker has exploded after crashing in Nigeria, killing 77 people who had rushed to collect fuel from the scene, authorities ...

Nigeria has denied accusations from Niger's military leader, Brig Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, of colluding with France to destabilise the junta-led nation. In a Christmas Day interview, Gen Tchiani ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said most of the victims, a majority were burnt beyond recognition. Fuel ...

Niger said Friday that it had suspended broadcasting by a major private TV channel and one of its journalists a day after it aired a report on the "performance" of the country's military-led ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...

The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-run West African country, Niger. It confirmed the incident to the AFP news agency and said ...