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

At least 10 soldiers were killed by armed assailants in an ambush in western Nigeria, near Burkina Faso's border. The attack ...

Of late, some armchair critics took a swipe at the orientations of Nigeria’s foreign policy vis-à-vis its effects on ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

The United States' decision to freeze and potentially scrap its core aid agency jolted countries receiving its funding and ...

Two West African nations, after military takeovers, are reportedly taking steps to rejoin ECOWAS within the six-month ...

Niger's army said Wednesday that 10 soldiers died in an "ambush" in the western Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso, where authorities Niger ...

Coach of the Super Eagles, Eric Chelle, has been greeted with a major defensive crisis ahead of Nigeria's upcoming FIFA World ...

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women ...

The Africa Visa Openness Index, an index which measures the extent to which each country in Africa is open to visitors from ...

The Niger State Government has received 21 children from the Magama Local Government Area of the state who were rescued from a ...