As the United Nations grapples with a financial crisis, it is about to cut a good proportion of its staff in Niger, which ...

Press Release - On June 20, 2025, Moussa Garba, a journalist with Maradi-based Dounia Radio and Television was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Police. Maradi is the second largest city in Niger ...

Niger's General Abdourahamane Tchiani is seen next to Burkinabe counterpart Captain Ibrahim Traore, right, in Niamey, Niger, on July 5 [AFP] Published On 6 Jul 2024 6 Jul 2024.

The US could begin withdrawing troops from Niger in the coming weeks, according to two US officials, which would mark a significant change to the American military presence in the country ...

Police in Niamey have seized 31.6 kilograms of cannabis and various other narcotics in a major drug bust in the Saga Gorou ...

Armed terrorist groups have reportedly imposed a full blockade on Torodi, a town in southwestern Niger, raising alarm over escalating insecurity and the potential threat to the nation’s capital ...

Everything was blocked between Niamey and Kollo, no passage, no way out. With the heavy rains, we lived through it," said Aissatou Harouna Faran Maiga, the mayor of Kollo town.

In an attempted coup, disgruntled members of the elite Presidential Guard sealed off access to Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum's residence and offices in the capital Niamey after talks broke down.

It comes as tensions have been rising over Chinese oil operations, as ruling junta pursues strategy of resource ...

5/2: CBS Morning News 20:14. Russian military personnel have entered an airbase in Niger where some U.S. troops are located, two U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News on Thursday.

In Niamey, tailors said they would keep sewing flags as long as the demand was there. Amid the clanking sounds of sewing machines, Abdoulaziz Ali Ahmane said he had sewn dozens of the flags free ...

At age 6, the architect Mariam Kamara moved with her family from Niamey, the capital of Niger, deep into the country’s vast Saharan interior, not far from the 15th-century city of Agadez, where ...