The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Junta-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso officially quit West African bloc after more than a year of diplomatic tensions ...

Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar yesterday gave insight to the consequences of the exit of Burkina Faso, Mali ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

Prior to Wednesday's shake-up, the bloc had 15 members, including states like Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which ...