Nigeria shares land borders with four countries, Benin Republic, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger Republic, across 17 states. These ...

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

An ambush by a group of criminals resulted in the deaths of at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the Burkina Faso border. The ...

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 ...

For over a decade, Islamists in the border regions of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have ... If they were one country, they would be the largest nation in Africa, and the 10th-largest in the ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

BAMAKO, Mali — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening ...

An ambush by a "group of criminals" killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger's ...

Four soldiers were injured in a recent improvised explosive device attack on a mission in the southwestern region of ...