The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Niger State Command, Aishatu Sa'adu, confirmed the incident in Minna on Tuesday.

Many persons have been feared dead in a tanker explosion that occurred along the Essa axis of the Agaie-Bida Road in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State, on Tuesday afternoon.

Islamic State has credited its West Africa affiliate for killing six French aid workers and their Nigerien guide and driver at a giraffe reserve in Niger on Aug. 9, according to a statement published ...

From the receding Lake Chad in the north to the flooded plains of the Niger Delta, Nigeria, and much of West Africa are ...

The military-led West African countries Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced their withdrawal from the International ...

Senegalese President Macky Sall has activated an emergency aid plan after a seven-hour downpour caused widespread floods.

Mali's Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced it will require U.S. visa applicants to post a bond of up to $10,000 ...

By reducing staff and access to treatment, the suspension of USAID and other funding threatens the country’s progress in HIV ...

At the Brooklyn Museum, his defining portraits of Mali’s citizens in the 1950s show them breaking free of colonial domination ...

Mali’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said it will require US visa applicants to post a bond of up to $10,000 in response to an identical measure enacted by the US last week that takes effect Oct. 23.

IN the heart of the Sahel, Captain Ibrahim Traoré is making a gamble few African leaders dare attempt: rejecting the Western development playbook and rebuilding Burkina Faso’s economy, culture and ...

Tamanrasset sits at the geographic heart of the desert. Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali, Niger, ...