THE ISIL (ISIS) armed group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an air force base at Niger’s main airport.…
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A BURST of heavy gunfire and explosions erupted early Thursday near the international airport in Niger’s capital Niamey before halting…
AN armed attack has killed at least 31 civilians in western Niger near the borders with Burkina Faso and Mali…
NIGER Republic has revoked the licences of dozens of transport operators and drivers for refusing to deliver fuel to neighbouring…
NIGER Republic’s military rulers have approved a general mobilisation and authorised the requisition of people and goods as they intensify…
NIGER Republic’s president Abdourahamane Tchiani this weekend said the country’s border with Benin would remain closed “as long as the…
THE National Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with various stakeholders, has received 150 Nigerian returnees from Agadez, Niger Republic. The…
A FRENCH uranium mining company accused of partial responsibility for jihadists abducting some of its employees in the Niger Republic…
MALI, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have…
GUNMEN on motorbikes have shot dead 22 people, most of them attending a baptism ceremony, in an attack on a…
NEARLY 130 people have been “summarily executed” by insurgents in Niger Republic in separate attacks since March, a report by…
MOROCCO trounced 10-man Niger 5-0 in Rabat on Friday to win Group E and become the first African qualifiers for…
AT least 35 migrants have died attempting the dangerous crossing of the Niger desert to Libya or Algeria on their…
NIGER’s lawyers have announced a two-day strike on Thursday and Friday to protest against the military government’s dissolution of the…
NIGER Republic’s military junta says it will nationalise the majority French-owned local uranium company in the latest escalation in a…
MORE than 200 gunmen on motorbikes have attacked a Niger army base near the border with Mali, leaving at least…
THE Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Kayode Opeifa, has said that the Kano-Maradi Railway project is key to…
NIGER’s military leaders have released more than 50 detainees, including former ministers in the government they toppled in 2023. Among…
MALI, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods from Nigeria and other Economic Community…
NIGER Republic has turned to Nigeria for help after being hit by fuel shortage. The West African country reached out…