Many migrants make the treacherous journey in the hope of a better life in Europe Troops in northern Niger have rescued 92 migrants who were on the brink of death in the Sahara Desert, an army ...

The recent lifting of Niger's ban on people smuggling has been welcomed by many in Agadez, a city on the edge of the Sahara - a once busy transit point for migrants heading towards North Africa ...

A convoy of pickups packed with Nigeriens and other Africans begins a three-day trek from Agadez, Niger, through the Sahara to Libya ... a shortage of arable land made worse by desertification ...

where the Aïr Massif meets the great sand seas of the Sahara, the commander's men had won the greatest victory of their two-year rebellion against the Niger government. The rebels, all ethnic ...

A megaproject to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded African land, costing £26bn ($33 bn), could be the answer ...

Niger, officially the Republic is Niger, is a vast, landlocked country on the edge of the Sahara desert. Following its independence from France in 1960, Niger fell victim to a series of military coups ...

With the departure of Mali, Burkina and Niger, the bloc will lose 76 million of its 446 million people and more than half its ...

Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of ...

West African leaders are gearing up for a crucial summit on Sunday in Nigeria's capital Abuja, where they will focus on the ...

Masses of livestock, which is also one of the most important sources of foreign exchange in Niger, were washed away in the Agadez region in the Sahara desert in central-north Niger, destroying the ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.