Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five ...

Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani is promoted to the highest rank in the army, and dissolves all political parties.

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.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama, yesterday said the Economic Community of West ...

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 ...

His comments come within the six-month transition period the ECOWAS approved for the withdrawal of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso as member states. At the 66th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS ...

Niger's junta had initially proposed a three-year transition period right after the coup, but that was rejected by West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS, which called it a provocation and ...

Claim: Recent reports circulating on social media claim that Niger has withdrawn from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional military coalition fighting terrorism in the Lake Chad ...

Niger's junta had initially proposed a three-year transition period right after the coup, but that was rejected by West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS, which called it a provocation and ...