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

Abdoulaye had previously told AFP that the communications minister had lifted the channel and Amadou's reporting suspensions.

While Tchangari fought his long battle for the defence of human rights and the sovereignty of Niger, Tiani served the dictatorships in power with the docility required to rise from private second ...

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

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 is "the fifth ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian foreign ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...

Niger's Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs Garba Hakimi officially declared that the country is free of onchocerciasis. With this landmark achievement, Niger becomes the first ...