Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

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 ...

Insurgents killed 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern city ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...