Niger Bound

Niger's judicial system has ordered the release of three campaigners held for more than six months after staging protests over a military procurement scam, one of their lawyers said Wednesday. Their cause was taken up by human rights groups, including Amnesty...

The senior US commander for Africa met France's top general on Thursday to discuss the fight against militant groups in the region, as uncertainty persists over whether President Donald Trump will maintain American troop levels on the continent. General Stephen...

The Islamic State extremist group on Thursday claimed the killing in August of six French aid workers and their two local guides while they were visiting a nature reserve in the West African country of Niger. The six French humanitarian workers, aged between 25 and...

Eighty-three migrants were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. A team from the IOM and Niger's Civil Protection service found the group 230...