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

Niger's ruling military has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to leave the country immediately. The junta ...

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

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

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

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

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

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 ...

Visual impairment, blindness, and severe itching have become exceptionally rare. Niger is now the first country on the continent to eliminate the transmission of the disease, an incredible ...

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

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Niger joins four other countries that have been verified by WHO for eliminating onchocerciasis, all in the Region of the Americas: Colombia (2013), Ecuador (2014), Guatemala (2016) and Mexico (2015).