GENEVA – A surge in brutal attacks by armed groups in northwest Nigeria is sending thousands of refugees fleeing to Niger, the United Nations refugee agency says. More than 40,000 Nigerians have fled to Niger…
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Niger’s top court has outlawed the practice of keeping women as maids and sex slaves known as “fifth wives”, capping a decade-long legal battle by one victim that could inspire…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s defense ministry says several days of raids have killed more than 280 Boko Haram extremists near the border with Nigeria. The statement says the land and air raids began on…
NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA — African heads of state have pledged to coordinate efforts to improve the continent’s security and defeat jihadist organizations, particularly in Nigeria and the Sahel region, during talks Monday at the 31st African…
PENTAGON — One U.S. special operations soldier is dead and four are wounded after al-Qaida-linked militants attacked an outpost under construction Friday in southwestern Somalia. Friday’s attack, about 50 kilometers north of the port city…
BAMAKO, MALI — A governor in Mali said Saturday that suspected jihadists had killed at least 40 civilians in two attacks near the country’s border with Niger, where attacks have increased in the past year….
PARIS — French and Malian troops killed about 30 Islamist insurgents during a gunbattle in a region near the border with Niger, where Islamic State are known to be active, the French army said on…
PENTAGON — The United States and Niger have reached an agreement permitting armed American military drones for use against jihadist terror groups in the African nation, a U.S. official told VOA. The agreement, finalized this…
NIAMEY — A Nigerien man who says he found three of the four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger last month says the bodies were bloodied and stripped of their uniforms. Adamou Boubacar told VOA’s French…
NIAMEY, NIGER — Niger has asked the United States to start using armed drones against jihadist groups operating on the Mali border, raising the stakes in a counterinsurgency campaign jolted by a deadly ambush of…