NIAMEY (Reuters) - Thousands of civilians fled their homes in the southeastern Niger town of Diffa this week, officials said on Thursday, following waves of cross-border raids and suicide bombings by ...

Two female suicide bombers attacked the Niger frontier town of Diffa on Wednesday, security sources said, shortly after Chad's army said it had killed 13 fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko ...

Analysts say Russian mercenaries focus on mineral extraction rather than security in Sahel countries after U.S. and French ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) – Six aid group employees were abducted from the guesthouse in a central Niger town, officials and witnesses said Monday. Men in two Toyota pickup trucks pulled up to a guesthouse ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A team of Al-Jazeera journalists was released late Monday after being detained for three days in eastern Niger, where they were held in a prison cell, according to a statement ...

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in south-east Niger following a series of attacks since last Friday by Boko Haram insurgents on the town of Bosso in the troubled Diffa region. The ...

French nuclear group Orano is to stand trial in Paris over claims it failed to protect staff from a 2010 Al-Qaeda kidnapping ...

Suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on the prison in the southern Niger town of Diffa late on Saturday, military sources said, in an apparent bid to free fellow members of the Nigerian ...

NIAMEY, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A driver died on Tuesday after his vehicle hit a landmine in the central Niger town of Tahoua, the second civilian killed in two days in what appeared to be an urban ...

NIAMEY, Niger - Boko Haram staged an overnight assault on a border town in Niger and a shell struck a market in the same town a few hours later, witnesses and the country's defense minister said ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, condemns an attack by armed assailants on Toumour, a town in south-east Niger, that killed 28 people and injured hundreds more. UNHCR is gravely concerned for the safety ...