Nearly two years after Niger's military seized power and the border with Benin was shut, tensions over security, sovereignty ...

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U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected ...

Officials say torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers meet with traders from the south ...

Nigerian authorities said they had expected flooding as part of the rainy season but were surprised by the extent of the damage.

West Africa and the Sahel on the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from the ECOWAS bloc. MP Gimba, from Nigeria, warned that if this threat is not halted, the entire region could be a ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is “confident” that Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will return to the regional bloc, Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on Wednesday.

At least 44 officers of Niger Republic’s defence and security forces (FDS) were killed in a deadly ambush by suspected jihadist militants during a river patrol operation in the Dosso Region.

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has signed two landmark five-year Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) aimed at enhancing water security and climate resilience across West Africa ...

China is not the only culprit threatening the marine ecosystems of west Africa through overfishing (Nature 496, 18, 2013). The region has been the fish basket of southern Europe since the 1960s ...

By Elian Peltier Reporting from Abidjan, Ivory Coast Commuters in Abidjan, one of West Africa’s largest cities, joke that it is impossible to run two errands a day because of traffic.

In the 19th century, thousands of peralta giraffes lived in West Africa, from Mauritania to Niger, in the semiarid land known as the Sahel. By 1996, fewer than 50 remained because of hunting ...