Chances are you'll never get to go to Niger. I never thought I'd get to go there either. It's landlocked and mostly desert. The only non-African cities that offer direct flights are Paris and Istanbul ...

Niger, a vast desert nation that straddles both the Sahara and the troubled semi-arid Sahel, goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president and legislature.

As Niger continues its campaign of de-colonizing its country, several monuments in the country’s capital with French monikers have been renamed. ・Several monuments in Niamey, Niger's capital, have ...