From Washington, Nigeria does not need troops or threats. It requires support to rebuild the institutions that keep citizens safe: forensic capacity, actionable intelligence, training and diplomatic ...

Last week, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a bid to rediscover the party’s direction. It was a repeat of the step the ruling All ...

Onyeka Chieme, an elementary school student, waited with bated breath as the loud thuds got nearer. Upon seeing men armed ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

From rural schools award-winning projects, Mariam Issoufou is turning traditional, climate-savvy architecture into a ...

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. troops trying to combat al Qaeda and ISIS jihadist fighters in Niger and some other West African countries in the terror-ridden Sahel region are reportedly "completely blind," ...

The U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping of an American Christian missionary in the West African nation of Niger, U.S. official sources told Fox News. The sources told Fox News that they suspect ...

NIAMEY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - An American missionary was kidnapped in Niger's capital Niamey, three security sources said on Wednesday. The missionary, who is a pilot for the evangelical missionary ...

A US missionary working for an evangelical Christian organisation has been kidnapped in Niger’s capital Niamey, the US State Department has said, in the latest kidnapping of a foreign national in the ...

Algeria will take on Niger in the fifth round of the group stage of the African Nations Championship (CHAN 2024). The Fennecs currently sit second in their group, having collected 5 points from their ...

"Brazen! It is brazen!" Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago. He makes no effort to disguise his anger that a rare meteorite from Mars discovered two years ago in the West African ...

Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev announced Russia’s intention to mine uranium in Niger, the world’s seventh-largest producer. Since the 2023 military coup, Niger has pivoted away from France ...