Boko Haram militants attacked a village in southeastern Niger overnight, killing three people including the local chief and wounding three others before being driven off by security forces, a military source said. The Islamist group has killed thousands in a six-year insurgency in Nigeria. Its ra...

Nine people killed, about 40 people abducted in a village near Niger's southeastern city of Diffa, officials say.

There has been a worrying upsurge in Boko Haram violence in Niger’s southeastern Diffa region, adding to the caseload of an already underfunded humanitarian crisis.

1 July – 31 December 2016 By Mohamed Ibn Chambas Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOWAS New York, 13 January 2017 Monsieur le Président, Distingués membres du Conseil, 1. C’est un honneur pour moi de me retrouver devant cette auguste assemblée, pou...

On 2 July 2017 leaders of the G5 Sahel, which consists of Chad, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mali and Niger, officially launched the new G5 Sahel force, in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron. This followed a meeting in February 2017 in which the G5 Sahel heads of state announced that a ne...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Denied an education by the Islamist insurgency of militant group Boko Haram, tens of thousands of children across the Lake Chad region are instead tuning into lessons broadcast over the radio, the United Nations children's agency (U...

Abidjan, 08 mai (AIP) – Le ministre gambien de l’Intérieur, Mai Ahmad Fatty, a invité les Etats membres de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (CEDEAO) à tout mettre en œuvre pour éradiquer l’apatridie dans l’espace communautaire. M. Fatty a lancé cet appel, dimanche à Banjul, e...

A delegation of the Danish Red Cross composed by Mr. Anders Ladekarl, General Secretary, Mr. Klaus Nørskov Head of the press department, Ms Isabel Lilia Morales Bondy, communication and vidéo, Mr. Niels Olsen, Goodwill Ambassador and Mr. Troëls Mikkelsen, Head of delegation of the Danish Red Cross i...

3 July 2017 – Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed today called for strengthening the relationship between the African Union (AU) and the United Nations to deliver on promised development for Africa's youth. Addressing her first African Union Summit since taking office, Ms. Mohammed said that ...

Le crépitement effréné et ininterrompu du tam-tam, dit-on dans nos terroirs, annonce deux choses : ou la fin de la cérémonie de réjouissance ou celle de l’instrument de percussion lui-même. Le week-end dernier a été marqué par de nombreux événements dans certaines localités à l’extrême nord du pa...