In order to generate African solutions to African challenges, researchers on the continent are being offered grants to come up with new drugs to fight malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical … read more »
The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four U.S. and four Nigerien soldiers in the western part of the country in October 2017. read more »
UNHCR said those deported were part of a group of around 160 Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers arrested in Agadez on May 2. The majority fled to Niger to escape harsh conditions and treatment in … read more »
In order to generate African solutions to African challenges, researchers on the continent are being offered grants to come up with new drugs to fight malaria, tuberculosis and ... Read more »
UNHCR said those deported were part of a group of around 160 Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers arrested in Agadez on May 2. The majority fled to Niger to escape harsh conditions ... Read more »
The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four U.S. and four Nigerien soldiers in the western part of the country in October ... Read more »
Minister of territorial administration, Paul Atanga Nji, visited the south-west and north-west regions to plead with the thousands of people hiding in bushes and mountains around ... Read more »
But I believe there's a silver lining to the dark cloud over Africa's politics. African autocrats are slowly being eased out. Incumbents might tinker with the rules of the game, ... Read more »
The U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, says the funding will support the Group of Five Sahel Joint Task Force, a military unit set up by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania ... Read more »
Authorities say at least a dozen paramilitary police have been killed in an attack similar to the one that killed four U.S. peacekeepers and four Nigerien soldiers earlier in ... Read more »
The Nigerian embassy in Washington, DC - arguably one of the country's key diplomatic outposts - has an ambassador at the helm for the first time in two years - Hassan Mohammed ... Read more »
Widespread flooding has killed at least 56 people since the rainy season began in June, and left over 185,000 homeless, according to the interior ministry. Read more »
In December 2016, the government of Niger launched a deradicalisation and reintegration programme for Boko Haram fighters who quit the battlefield, writes Obi Anyadike for Irin. Read more »
