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 ...

Abdourahamane Tchiani, an army veteran, was also elevated to the country’s highest military rank and signed a decree ...

An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said. The attack took place on Friday afternoon in the village of Fambita in the ...

Islamist militants killed at least 44 civilians and severely injured 13 others during an attack on a mosque in southwest Niger on Friday, the country's defence ministry said.

Over 400 filling stations of independent oil marketers located at border communities have remained shut since 2019 based on the Federal Government’s directive to halt the smuggling of petrol out of ...

The fuel crisis in Niger has reached a boiling point as the country's citizens now buy petrol at N8,000 per litre. The ...

Niger Republic has turned to Nigeria for help after being hit by fuel shortage. The West African country reached out to Nigeria despite months of diplomatic tensions and hostile rhetoric.

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Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist. CIVICUS categorizes civil rights into five distinct levels—open ...

The fuel that came into Niger illegally from Nigeria represented up to half of the market. It supplied the large regions near the border between the two countries, Sonidep commercial director ...

Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their exit from ECOWAS in January 2024. The junta-led countries had already been suspended from the bloc, which had been urging them to return to democratic ...