Niger, Africa

The Niger army says it has seized a stockpile of more than 1,000 anti-personnel landmines it found abandoned on the Niger-Chad border. If confirmed...

All she saw was blood. Ouma Ibrahim knew it was not normal to have so much blood after delivering her son at home. She consulted a midwife at the...

Niger’s Ministry of Livestock is intensifying its bird surveillance along the 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria after a recent resurgence...

Programme will focus on reducing gender disparity DUBAI, 16 July 2008 – Dubai Cares, a charitable organization that aims to provide primary education...

Niger has registered 157 cases of meningitis that have resulted in 11 deaths this year, but there is no epidemic of the bacterial infection anywhere...

A hugely beneficial nutritious snack called Plumpy’nut should be commercially available and marketed much more aggressively if it is to have a...

A landmine that exploded under a car in the Nigerien capital Niamey on 8 January killed one civilian and wounded another, agencies report. ...

Amnesty International is alarmed at the increasing number of extrajudicial executions of civilians by the army in the Agadez region and is asking...

Fifteen-year-old Hadjo Garbo’s child-like features belie a history more tragic and life-altering than many adults four times her age will have...

Niger is one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth. Thirty women lolling on mats outside a non-governmental organisation (NGO)...