Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: WWF is joining with local and international partners to save Africa's third longest river. West Africa's Niger river connects four ecoregions of outstanding importance and some ...

At least 100 people, mostly women, are missing after a boat transporting passengers to a food market capsized on the river Niger in northern ... to pinpoint the exact location of the incident ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.