The head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel says the coalition is the only security mechanism ...

NIAMEY, Niger ... officials and military officers detained after a coup in 2023 as part of what the military authorities describe as part of efforts to reform the West African country ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years ...

On 8 January, members of the violent extremist Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims attacked a fortified position of the anti-terrorist Operation Mirador in northern Benin. Media reports said ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP ... charter that replaces the West African nation’s constitution. Tchiani, an army veteran, was also elevated to the country’s highest military rank of army general ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region ... were killed in an attack on a military base. And Niger has become ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

At the start of his second term as president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama initiated efforts to revive ties with three fellow ...

MOSCOW, April 4 (Reuters) - Russia has committed to helping military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger acquire ... a statement said. The West African nations, run by juntas that have ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s junta leader ... period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s constitution. The move effectively rebuffed attempts by ...