Niger has made history as the first African country to eliminate the transmission of river blindness, according to verification by the World Health Organization (WHO).This milestone was achieved ...

My country Niger is never normally "front page news" but that all changed on 26 July. Rumours started to circulate that there had been a coup at the presidential palace. I immediately got to work ...

women's empowerment and culture. The Austrian foreign ministry said they were working with the EU delegation and authorities on the ground. Niger has been battling an Islamist insurgency for years.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military juntas. Negotiations failed to change their minds. By Saikou Jammeh ...