Niger’s military authorities have announced plans to hold a major conference on the country’s transition to democracy. This ...

The military junta in Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to leave the country. The regime, which ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to cease operations and for its foreign staff to leave the ...

A 171-mile road project in a landlocked country in Africa is set to improve transport connections and provide a much-needed ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

The ruling military junta of Niger Republic has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, to immediately ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth worldwide to eliminate the parasitic infection. Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also ...

NIAMEY, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Niger's Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs Garba Hakimi officially declared at a ceremony on Thursday that the country is free of onchocerciasis.

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

The country's border security, particularly in the North, remains weak, allowing individuals from neighboring countries such ...