* Dispute over audit of voter lists before Feb. elections * Opposition says 'there will be no elections' * Uranium producer has history of instability By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Niger's opposition parties rejected a newly audited voter register on Monday, saying th...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been unveiling Nigeria's budget for 2016 as it grapples with falling oil revenue and a chronic Islamist insurgency. Buhari is aiming for growth of just above four percent. President Muhammadu Buhari has presented Nigeria's 2016 budget which triples investment spend...

* State budget deficit to double * Capital expenditure to triple * Buhari says record borrowing is designed to revive growth (Adds details on spending and foreign exchange) By Camillus Eboh and Felix Onuah ABUJA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Nigeria expects its deficit to double to 2.2 trillion na...

(Adds detail, context throughout) N'DJAMENA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Four militants detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of locals on a Lake Chad island, killing three of the attackers but no one else, official and security sources said on Wednesday. The maze of islands and wate...

NIAMEY Dec 23 (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants killed two soldiers and three civilians in Niger's southern border town of Abadam in an overnight raid, two security sources told Reuters on Wednesday, in the third suspected attack by the group in less than 24 hours. Four militants detonated suicide...

Au moins 14 personnes ont été tuées et plusieurs autres blessées par des combattants du groupe islamiste Boko Haram, dans une attaque vendredi contre un village du nord-est du Nigeria, a-t-on appris samedi auprès de membres des milices d'autodéfense. Des combattants du groupe islamiste Boko Haram...

Nigeria has "technically won the war" against Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari says. He told the BBC that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres. It had been reduced to fighting with improvised expl...

Militants in Nigeria have attacked a village near the north-eastern city of Maiduguri killing 21 people and injuring 91 others, officials say. Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades fired from three trucks during the raid on Sunday evening. Hours later a female suicide bomber killed one p...

Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari promised to stamp out Boko Haram by the end of December. Will he manage to keep his word? Early 1984: There could hardly have been a bigger PR triumph for the new president. Islamists had taken control of a slum in Yola, one of the biggest cities in north...

At least 15 people killed as armed group launch rocket-propelled grenades and activate suicide bombers in northern city. At least 15 people have been killed after a series of suspected Boko Haram attacks on the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria. Security and local sources told Al ...