The World Health Organization said Thursday that Niger met the criteria for the elimination of onchocerciasis, a cause of blindness, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in ...

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.

The official departure from the West African body on Tuesday comes after Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali last year formed their ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.

Scores of people on Tuesday rallied in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

Despite a deadly tanker explosion that killed over 90 people days earlier, residents in Bida town, Niger State, gathered ...

Thousands of people rallied Tuesday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

At least 70 people have died in north-central Nigeria after a gasoline tanker exploded, the country’s emergency response ...

Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic ...

Ogun State Governor and Chairman of the Southern Governors'u Forum, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has described the tanker fire ...

The three Sahelian countries teamed up to form a confederation called the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) as they exit ECOWAS Wednesday.