Three policemen have been killed in an attack on Niger security forces near the border with Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali. Niger's Ministry of Defense made the statement on public television Thursday. Colonel Ledru Moustapha said in the statement the attack was launched by assailants who arrived...

How the tattered remnants of an Islamist sect transformed into a relentless terrorist army that Nigeria cannot defeat In February 2009, I was at a motor park in Maraba, a satellite of the Nigerian capital Abuja, looking for motorcyclists wearing dried vegetables on their heads. The Nigerian Polic...

GENEVA | Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:41am EST (Reuters) - More than half a million Syrian refugees are now registered or are waiting to in other Middle Eastern countries, with about 3,000 new people seeking refugee status and assistance daily, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. In the l...

La 10e édition du Festival international de la mode en Afrique, Fima, prévue du 25 au 29 novembre à Niamey, a été reportée mardi sine die. Motif : les craintes d'une attaque jihadiste dans la capitale nigérienne. « Le gouvernement du Niger a décidé de reporter cette 10e édition du Fima [Festival ...