The Federal Government yesterday raised alarm that 30 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are currently at risk of flooding, reminiscent of last Thursday's flood in which ...

The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger rose to at least 151 on ...

Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...

Some acted as historians, combing through old maps and records to identify ... in the countries that still need them. As Niger’s elimination of river blindness demonstrates, and as Beginning Fund ...

Tragedy struck the town of Lapai on Thursday morning as two brothers, identified as Ismail Alaba and his sibling, drowned in the Katcha River while returning from a shopping trip. The pair had ...

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 ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

A vessel carrying more than 200 passengers sank early on Friday morning. At least eight fatalities have already been confirmed. At least 100 people, mostly women, are missing after a boat ...