While countries like Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have turned their backs on ties with France following juntas coming to power there, Ivory Coast, which was under French rule from 1893 to 1960, ...

The die is cast. The airlifting of intending pilgrims to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 2025 Hajj begins today. The ...

Decades of underinvestment in Nigeria’s power supply mean it has not kept pace with the country’s growth. More than 90m of ...

Nigeria rsquo;s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved a $1 billion financing initiative for the Rural Electrification Agency ...

About 10 soldiers were killed and seven injured in an attack in Niger's Dosso region this week, authorities said in a statement broadcast on state radio, while a security source told Reuters the death ...

Warnings against travel abroad from the UK have been issued for countries including Afghanistan, Belarus and Haiti ...

Trucks, camel caravans and donkeys returning at nightfall laden with enormous cargoes of wood are becoming a rare sight in ...

Security forces in Niger have searched the offices of uranium miner Orano's local subsidiaries, seizing phones and equipment, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday, months after the French company said ...

A glimpse inside the shattered city of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, destroyed by the two-year conflict and now in the process of trying to recover.

Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago has reviewed the curfew time in the Minna metropolis. The governor, in a statement ...