Niger’s coup leader has proposed a three-year transition of power after meeting a delegation of West African leaders and warned that any attack on the country would “not be a walk in the park” for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is spread by infected blackflies in rural areas along rivers and ...

Niger has become the latest West African country to roll out malaria vaccines to try to stifle the potentially deadly disease, an official source told AFP on Friday. Niamey launched a large-scale ...

Niger’s airspace closed on Sunday, the day imposed as a deadline by a group of African countries for Nigerien military coup leaders to release power and reinstate the country’s democratically-elected ...

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The African Union has suspended Niger following the takeover of the West African country by a military junta on July 26. In a much-anticipated statement, the African Union (AU) – a union of 55 member ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen on Dec. 9, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, ...

Niger – a landlocked country of 25 million people in one of the most unstable parts of the world – recently announced it was suspending military cooperation with the United States. For over a decade, ...

Niger has become the first country in Africa to be recognized by the World Health Organization for interrupting the transmission of onchocerciasis, or river blindness. The milestone marks a ...

Dublin, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Niger Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report provides an executive-level overview ...

NIAMEY, Niger - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons applaud the ground-breaking adoption by Niger of a national law for the ...

Niger has formally withdrawn from the International Criminal Court, accusing the judicial body based in The Hague of practising "selective justice". The west African nation submitted a letter to the ...