Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...

Thirty-seven traders have died after an overloaded boat capsized on Thursday evening on the Gbajibo-Mudi River, bordering Kwara and Niger states. According to Sunday PUNCH the victims were ...

BAMAKO — Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has always been simple: cast their nets and provide for their family.

Previously, crossing the Niger River here meant hours waiting for a shaky ferry under a blazing sun. Since January 2021, this 640-meter bridge, part of the African Development Bank's Trans-Saharan ...

Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago, has announced a revision of the curfew hours imposed on the movement of motorcycles and tricycles within the Minna metropolis. This was contained in a statement ...

NIAMEY, May 7 (Reuters) - About 10 soldiers were killed and seven injured in an attack in Niger's Dosso region this week, authorities said in a statement broadcast on state radio, while a security ...

He invited the IMIDRO chief to visit Niger to explore mining opportunities firsthand and said he hoped a memorandum of understanding would be signed during an upcoming visit to Iran by Niger’s ...

Troops of the Nigerian Army, 6 Division, have arrested 38 suspected oil thieves and destroyed 28 illegal refining sites in a series of coordinated operations across the Niger Delta region.

Security forces in Niger have searched the offices of uranium miner Orano’s local subsidiaries, seizing phones and equipment, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday, months after the French company ...

About 10 Niger Soldiers Killed in Attack in the South, Authorities Say NIAMEY (Reuters) - About 10 soldiers were killed and seven injured in an attack in Niger's Dosso region this week ...

An attack blamed on suspected jihadist fighters killed about 10 soldiers in Niger, state radio reported Tuesday. The attack on Sunday near a village in the southwest of the huge desert country ...