The Federal Government announced April that 1,249 communities in 176 LGAs across 30 states and the FCT would witness heavy flooding April ...

BAMAKO — Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has always been simple: cast their nets and provide for their family.

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 ...

She said, “One of the things I asked the committee for is that the Director General of the Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority should show us or give us a list. Senator Ireti Kingibe ...