Niger is accelerating plans to rebuild its uranium industry after breaking with France and revoking the licences of French ...

The United States has delivered military equipment worth approximately $2.3 million to Niger in what appears to be Washington ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this image taken from video provided by ORTN, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, front center, makes a statement on July 26, ...

Benin’s new president, Romuald Wadagni, has overseen a major diplomatic opening with the Sahel’s military-led governments, ...

U.S. relations with Niger, a key ally, face challenges after a military coup ousted the president, potentially paving the way for greater Russian influence in the Sahel. Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner ...

The three West African nations—Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso—all led by military governments, have jointly announced their ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Drug seizures soared in the West African Sahel region according to figures released Friday in a new U.N. report, indicating the conflict-ridden region is becoming an influential ...

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Aug. 1, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. The coup in Niger follows similar coups in ...

The Sahel region has become a focal point of deepening polarization between pro-Western “moderate” states and nations seeking independence from neo-colonial influence, relying instead on non-African ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The United States scrambled Sunday to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel after Niger’s junta said it was ending its years-long military cooperation with ...