While you were sleeping, global agencies reported the following events overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Nineteen ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against rising ...

The exit of military-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) is seen to ...

It happened while you were sleeping. Here is what global agencies reported overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. 19,000 ...

The juntas in the three countries left the Economic Community of West African States, the nearly 50-year-old regional bloc ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers were kidnapped while transporting goods from Morocco to Niger and were later released in Niger.

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief as envoy to the alliance formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, signalling his administration's intention to mend ...

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup.

East African countries have plenty to offer Western miners in the coming years, notably the relative absence of strongarm ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said ...

A combination of population explosion, failure of governance and endemic poverty creates a perfect breeding ground for a ...

The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-ran West African ...