China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

His Royal Majesty, King Bubaraye Dakolo, the Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom and Chairman of the Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council, has decried the poor state of development in the Niger Delta ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, ...

Online gaming is always fun until you run into region restrictions. Whether you want to access exclusive content or play on international servers for a different challenge, it can be difficult without ...

Several recent developments—a new leadership, a cessation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, and a weakening of Iran’s power in the region—could help it emerge from one of its darkest periods ...

The $1.96bn Kano-Katsina-Jigawa-Maradi rail project is still ongoing despite the recent tensions between Nigeria and the Niger Republic.Arewa PUNCH reports that the Kano-Katsina-Jigawa-Maradi rail ...

An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts ... and it spiraled out of control as high winds hit the region. Sheila Kelliher, a Los Angeles County Fire Department captain, told "CBS ...

This heat map presents an assessment based on the availability, completeness, and timeliness of public debt statistics and debt management documents posted on national authorities' websites. The ...

The 613 men who were sent back to Niger this month were detained in Libya since at least last fall, according to regional officials in Niger, who escorted them from the border to Dirkou ...