Gunfire around Niamey’s airport on 18 June – the second militant assault on the facility in six months – has sharpened the urgency of a diplomatic opening between...

A cache of 75 secret Russian memos about the Kremlin’s propaganda offensive in Africa by the Wagner Group and its successor organisation, ‘The Company’, has exposed a vast...

For the juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the first anniversary of their breakaway from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) was marked by an...

General Abdourahamane Tiani, Niger’s military ruler, is reluctantly climbing down from the junta’s bitter dispute with the French nuclear group Orano, even as he launched a fresh barrage...

Concerns are growing for the security of a consignment of about 1,000 tonnes of uranium held at the Niger government’s military Air Base 101 next to the Diori...