Six Nigerien soldiers were killed when heavily armed attackers targeted an army position near the Malian border, the government said on Thursday.
The attackers arrived on vehicles in the village of Abala on Wednesday evening. They stole four (...)
The terrorist group Boko Haram has killed seven police officers in the west African country of Niger, Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum said.
According to dpa, the terrorists attacked the village of N'Gagam near the Nigerian border on Thursday (...)
President Mahamadou Issoufou has won run-off elections boycotted by the opposition with more than 92 per cent of the vote, the country's election commission said Tuesday, according to dpa.
Opposition leader Hama Amadou, 66, only won around 7 per (...)
Niger was Wednesday scrambling to overcome a
vaccine shortage amid the deaths of at least 265 people in a
meningitis outbreak, dpa reported.
Infections are rising rapidly, but Niger is in possession of only
half the vaccines needed to control the (...)
Soldiers from neighbouring Chad and Niger have killed
228 members of the terrorist group Boko Haram in northern
Nigeria's strategic border town of Damask, dpa reported.
"Nigerien and Chadian defence forces have been engaging in land and
air (...)
RIYADH: The 2010 winners of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz International Award for Translation were announced late Saturday by Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah at a ceremony in Riyadh.
The award for Efforts of (...)
International donors, including the European Union, ignored urgent calls for food aid for Niger, exposing thousands of children to the risk of dying of hunger, Reuters quoted an official at a medical charity on Friday.
Medecins sans Frontieres (...)
