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 ...

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 ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s constitution ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musah said the formal withdrawal of the three countries from the regional bloc on Jan. 29 required critical analysis of the security arrangement within West Africa and the Sahel. He called on the ...