So it was that I landed at Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger. The impressive new airport is named for the ...

After the Trump administration expanded its travel ban, one of the countries on the list has responded in kind.

A Niger general who runs the country's presidential guard declared himself the country's new leader on Friday, two days after he led his soldiers in a coup d'etat that overthrew the nation's president ...

In July of 2023, Niger experienced a coup that shook its political landscape. Military officers ousted the elected government, leading to instability and uncertainty for its people. The international ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) -France's ambassador to Niger arrived in Paris on Wednesday, around a month after the military junta ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat ...

Chances are you'll never get to go to Niger. I never thought I'd get to go there either. It's landlocked and mostly desert. The only non-African cities that offer direct flights are Paris and Istanbul ...

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Aug. 1, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. The coup in Niger follows similar coups in ...

NIAMEY, Niger - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons applaud the ground-breaking adoption by Niger of a national law for the ...

The gunshots began in the middle of the night late in 2018. Ali Bakara, a twenty-eight-year old mother of eight, was jolted awake. It was three o’clock in the morning in her village near Maiduguri, in ...

Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that ...

The presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger at 3am on July 26. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders and ...