From infertility struggles to the shape of a woman's body, award-winning filmmaker Aicha Macky tackles issues considered ...

Niger’s authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tiangari and stop ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...

Despite its vast expanse of sand, the Sahara is not the largest desert on the planet, that distinction goes to someplace with ...

In a time when anti-colonial rhetoric has become a rallying cry across parts of Africa, particularly in the Sahel, the ...

Arable land in the fast-growing country shrank nearly 50 percent per capita from 1996 to 2016. Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara ...

Under the glow of solar streetlights, Aichatou Alkassoum marvels at the Djibo Bakary Bridge in Farié, Niger. "At night, it's like a modern Niamey street," she says, her voice bright with pride. A ...

Until last year, the U.S. had military bases in neighboring Niger as part of its counterterrorism work in the Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara, but withdrew after the West African ...

Fighting has broken out between the Hausa and Gbagyi communities in Chimbi, a village under Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, over a land dispute. Videos and photos obtained by ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is a huge blow to Ecowas ... The Sahel - the semi-arid region just south of the Sahara Desert that includes the three departing countries - is ...

There is an emerging reality that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to lose three of its founding members – Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger Republic ... the semi-arid region ...