The situation deteriorated even further when Benin blocked border crossings to Niger across the Niger River, blaming informal ... dynamics in the region, West Africa is now marked by a clear ...

The WHO’s verification is the culmination of nearly 50 years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. RLMF partnered with Niger’s Ministry of Health to collect ...

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 ...

Covering almost 490,000 square miles, Niger is the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second largest ... corner along the namesake Niger River. As a whole, Niger’s infrastructure ...

Search teams fanned out Saturday from the epicentre of deadly flash flooding in Nigeria, the Red Cross said, as the death toll from heavy rains in the north-central market town of Mokwa topped 151.

More than 3,000 people were displaced in the flooding in the town of Mokwa in Niger state, more than 180 miles west of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous nation, a Niger state emergency ...