Niger Bound

The head of a leading campaign group in Niger has been detained in a case involving an army air strike on suspected jihadists in the south of the country, prosecutors said. Abdoulaye Seydou, head of an activist group called M62, appeared before the Niamey criminal...

Five Boko Haram jihadist fighters have been killed and two Niger soldiers wounded in clashes in southeast Niger near the Nigerian border, local authorities said Friday. The military clashed with the jihadist fighters in the towns of Bague and Tchoungoua in the Diffa...

Three people died on Monday when a Nigerien military helicopter crashed on return from a routine training flight, the defence ministry said. The accident happened when the Russian-built Mi-17 crashed as it was landing at a military base at Niamey airport....

By Boureima Hama with Pierre Donadieu in Abidjan Prospects for the world's nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels -- but Niger, one of the world's biggest sources of uranium, has yet to...