Niamey a finalement autorisé l'évacuation de l'opposant Hama Amadou dont l'état de santé s'est dégradé en prison. Malgré ce coup de théâtre à quatre jours du second tour de la présidentielle, l'opposition reste décidée. C'est à bord d'un avion médicalisé que Hama Amadou a quitté Niamey pour Pari...

Angèle Dikongué-Atangana talks about the ongoing partnership between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to improve the protection of the rights of asylum-seekers, refugees and those at risk of statelessness in West Afr...

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou won a second term with 92.5 percent of the vote in a run-off election that the opposition coalition chose to boycott, the electoral commission said on Tuesday. Issoufou, an ally of the West in its fight against Islamist insurgents in West Africa, won the first...

Zacheaus Somorin with agency report About 20,000 people have been killed since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, according to a report from the World Bank that also put the cost of destruction at $5.9 billion. The report laid bare the extent of the damage since the insurge...

Tobi Soniyi in Abuja The federal government’s ongoing fight against corruption has received a boost as the United Kingdom has offered to help Nigeria in tracking terrorism, money laundering and other form of organised crimes. A statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the ...

Niger's president has been re-elected as his main opponent remains in France seeking medical treatment after being jailed for several months. The electoral commission released results on Tuesday showing that President Mahamadou Issoufou received more than 92 percent of the runoff vote. His ri...

Taraba State Police Commissioner, Mr. Shaba Alkali yesterday confirmed the arrest of two Boko Haram Commanders, Abdulmumuni Abdullahi and Ali Audu (alias Dungu), who are among the 100 terrorists declared wanted by the military. Alkali, who stated this in his office in Jalingo while briefing journali...

Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Monday 3/21/2016 - 14:25 GMT Some 20,000 people have been killed in the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno state in northeast Nigeria, according to a report for the World Bank that puts the cost of destruction at $5.9 billion. The report lays bare the extent of the damage si...

More than 600 households comprising of over 3600 people earlier displaced by the Boko Haram crisis in a Yobe State have returned to their liberated Communities. Yobe State has over 300,000 IDPs scattered across the state, including about 28,000 living in IDPs camps. Our correspondent who visited s...

NIAMEY, March 29 (Reuters) - Niger opposition leader Hama Amadou, jailed since November on baby trafficking charges, was granted a provisional release by a court on Tuesday a week after losing a presidential run-off election, his lawyer said. Amadou, a former speaker of parliament, has denied the...