Tag: Niger

The United States has delivered an initial batch of military equipment to Niger as part of efforts to strengthen the G5 Sahel group’s fight...

Mali, Niger and Nigeria are under pressure to stop the ongoing terrorist attacks in their countries. How to achieve this is the critical question....

Islamic State’s West African branch claimed responsibility for an ambush that killed 28 soldiers this week in Niger, as the militant group seeks to...

The United States government has handed over a $16.5 million command and control centre to the Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) to assist it in...

States in the Liptako-Gourma region – including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – are imposing restrictive measures to try to quell the growing threat...

A group of 159 Eritrean refugees were flow from Libyan capital Tripoli to Niger for resettlement, the United Nations said. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR)...

Troops and air strikes killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants since the Niger government started an operation against the group last week, the...

French and Nigerien troops killed around 15 Islamist militants in a joint air and ground operation in south west Niger, France's armed forces and...

Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in south-eastern Niger, a local mayor said. Boukar Mani Orthe, mayor of Toumour in Niger's Diffa...

Armed men killed eight people in a late night attack on French drilling company Foraco's water well site in south-eastern Niger. "A...