The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is currently pained by the establishment of the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES: Alliance of Sahel States, ASS).The pain is unfortunate because ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

Dubois was released on March 20, 2023, in Agadez, Niger, but details of his release, including whether a ransom was paid, remain undisclosed. French President Emmanuel Macron took to the social ...

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Already fuming against the French intelligence agencies, whom he accused of failing to anticipate a number of crises, including the coup in Niger in July 2023, the president sacked the head of the ...

The President mourned the victims and expressed his condolences to the families affected, as well as to the government and people of Niger State. Tinubu also directed the relevant agencies to ...

Death toll from Saturday’s fuel tanker explosion in Niger State has reached 98 ... medical centres for enhanced care in life with President Bola Tinubu’s directive. The death toll, as of ...

John Mahama has been sworn in as Ghana's new president. He inherits a host of ... Examples include Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Benin and Sierra Leone. Since 2015, there ...

This week's announcement by Niger's Foreign Affairs Ministry to effectively ban the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) came unexpectedly, apparently without any prior warning.

The attack, which took place on Sunday in Agadez, also claimed the lives of two Nigerien security personnel from the Garde Nationale du Niger (GNN). Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert ...