NIAMEY, Niger -- A French military transport plane carrying Europeans departed Niger on Tuesday in the first such evacuation flight since mutinous soldiers ousted the country's democratically elected ...

Niger plans to nationalise a uranium mine operated by French nuclear firm Orano as it continues to pivot away from former colonial ruler, France. The company, which is 90 percent owned by the French ...

The Boys Brigade of Nigeria, Niger State Council, has called on federal and state governments to expedite action to ensure ...

A uranium shipment from Niger's SOMAIR mine, expropriated by the government, has stirred safety and legal concerns. Orano, a ...

Niger's plans to put uranium produced by Somaïr on the international market were announced on state television, days after Orano condemned a reported shipment of material from the site as illegal. ; ...

Authorities have blamed the deadly attack in the town of Kokorou on the Islamic State in the Great Sahara, an ISIL affiliate. The military-run government of Niger frequently fights armed groups in the ...

Nearly two weeks after four Green Berets were killed in an ambush, top senators are demanding the Trump administration provide Congress with more information on the first deadly attack on U.S. troops ...

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has described the rescue of some abducted students of the St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, Agwara local ...

NIAMEY, Niger -- Gunmen aboard motorcycles attacked a series of villages near Niger's troubled border with Mali, leaving at least 137 people dead in the deadliest violence to strike the African ...

No fewer than 240 members of a radical and controversial Islamic sect were yesterday, June 4 evacuated from their camp by the joint military group led by Lt. Col Adamu Yakubu. The sect, Nibrassiya ...