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

This marks the first implementation of Leucipa in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically in the JV's offshore operations in the ...

The economic benefits of eliminating river blindness in Niger are estimated at $2.3 billion, with 17.8 billion additional ...

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

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger is also about to leave the West African economic bloc Ecowas on 29 January, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, after forming their own Alliance of Sahel States. Fears for the future in Mali ...

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.

Thousands of people rallied Tuesday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

Between 1976 and 1989, under the umbrella of the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa, Niger undertook control measures by spraying insecticides that significantly decreased levels ...