Niger has withdrawn from the military coalition fighting Islamist insurgency groups in the Lake Chad region of west-central Africa, saying it will focus instead on protecting its oil operations from ...

The levy, which took effect last Friday, applies to all goods from ECOWAS member states entering any of the three nations, except for humanitarian aid.

The juntas in West Africa have discovered the sweetness of power and seem reluctant to hand it back to civilians.

The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will visit Moscow this week as the Sahel nations and Russia seek to ...

Nations once relegated to the margins of economic discourse are now sprinting toward prosperity, their trajectories propelled ...

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Body camera footage from a Green Beret killed in a 2017 ambush in Niger has led the Army for the second time to award the ...

Niger's military ruler Abdourahamane Tchiani, who seized power in 2023, is now Niger's president. During his inauguration in ...

In response Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, declared a state of emergency in Rivers, the oil-rich state in the Niger Delta ...

Just one point divides African champions Ivory Coast and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang-inspired Gabon in the struggle to finish ...