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FRENCH PRESIDENT CELEBRATES 'CHRISTMAS' WITH TROOPS IN NIGER


Niger is at the forefront of migratory routes in the Sahel, particularly in the region of Agadez in the north... READ MORE

24th December, 2017 34

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FRANCE 24 journalist wins UN Correspondents award for 'Timbuktu Revisited'... READ MORE

16th December, 2017 66

US SPECIAL FORCES 'FOUGHT NIGER AMBUSH ALONE AFTER LOCAL TROOPS FLED'


The five Nigeriens killed in the ambush died in its first moments, sources within the special forces community said... READ MORE

5th November, 2017 7055

FRANCE SEEKS UN FUNDING TO FIGHT TERROR, SMUGGLING IN AFRICA'S SAHEL


France wants donors to step up, but is also looking to the United Nations to offer logistic and financial support to the joint force... READ MORE

30th October, 2017 24

ANALYSIS | PARTS OF NIGER AND MALI ARE ALREADY LAWLESS. U.S. STRATEGY MIGHT MAKE IT WORSE.


Chadian troops and Nigerien Special Forces participate in the Flintlock exercises with the U.S. military and its Western partners in Mao, Chad, March 7, 2015... READ MORE

23rd October, 2017 1272

GUNMEN KILL 13 NIGER SOLDIERS IN ATTACK NEAR MALI BORDER


A United Nations Security Council delegation was in Mali on Saturday to discuss the force... READ MORE

22nd October, 2017 106

GUNMEN KILL 12 NIGER TROOPS IN ATTACK NEAR MALI BORDER


Heavily armed assailants believed to have crossed over from Mali launch dawn attack on paramilitary police base... READ MORE

21st October, 2017 133

GHANA PAIRED WITH NIGER IN ROUND OF 16


Ghana, Mali and Niger reached the the round of 16 in the 2017 U-17 World Cup in India 2017... READ MORE

15th October, 2017 50

FOUR KILLED AFTER CARGO PLANE CRASHES INTO ATLANTIC OCEAN


Four crew members were killed when a cargo plane chartered by the French military crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Ivory Coast... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 0

Trending News Headlines : Kidal — Ghislaine Dupont

AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST


The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE

29th August, 2015 10992

BURKINA FASO: AT LEAST 18 DEAD IN RESTAURANT ATTACK


At least 18 people have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants at a restaurant popular with foreigners in the capital of Burkina Faso... READ MORE

15th August, 2017 10319

HOSTAGES SEIZED IN ATTACK ON RADISSON HOTEL IN MALI


In August United Nations workers were killed in an assault on a hotel in central Mali... READ MORE

20th November, 2015 8572

AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY


MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE

23rd June, 2015 4415

AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE


Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE

25th September, 2015 3852

THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST U.N. MISSION


Already, the United Nations has tried to adapt in Mali... READ MORE

19th February, 2017 3554

RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'


An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE

2nd September, 2015 3169

FOREIGN JIHADISTS FLOCKING TO IRAQ AND SYRIA ON 'UNPRECEDENTED SCALE' A UN


Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaida who booted Isis out of his organisation, appears to be maneuvering for relevance, the report says... READ MORE

31st October, 2014 3122

EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES


In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE

15th June, 2015 2502

'JIHADISTS WERE GOING TO BURN IT ALL'


Haidara stayed in jihadist-occupied Timbuktu for a month, covertly organising the hiding of his manuscripts in family houses... READ MORE

1st May, 2017 2224

EVERY 7 SECONDS A GIRL YOUNGER THAN 15 GETS MARRIED


Nordic countries sit at the top, while impoverished, fragile states such as the Central African Republic, Niger and Chad hold up the bottom... READ MORE

12th October, 2016 1892

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH


Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE

28th September, 2015 1698

TWELVE KILLED IN SEVARE, FOUR UN WORKERS SAVED


The gunmen had retreated to the hotel after attacking the Malian army facility which is only 20 metres from the hotel... READ MORE

8th August, 2015 1590

ISIS COULD BECOME 'WORLDS FIRST TRULY TERRORIST STATE' AND BOMB UK WITH NUCLEAR AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS, THERESA MAY WARNS


Isis could become world's first truly terrorist state and bomb uk with nuclear and chemical weapons theresa may warns... READ MORE

1st October, 2014 1455

GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS


In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE

6th July, 2015 1445

CRACKDOWN IN NIGER FAILS TO DETER MIGRANT SMUGGLERS


As many as 2,000 migrants leave Agadez weekly, the last big stop before reaching Libya, 620 miles away across the scorching sand... READ MORE

21st August, 2015 1295

UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS


We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE

7th September, 2015 1176

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS


We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE

26th September, 2015 1139

U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX


As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE

12th January, 2016 1105

AMERICAN NON-GOVERNMENT WORKER REPORTEDLY KIDNAPPED IN NIGER


At least two people reportedly killed by gunfire as hostage taken from Niger town of Abalak across the border to Mali... READ MORE

15th October, 2016 1090

FRANCE FIRES FIRST AIRSTRIKES ON ISIS IN SYRIA


PARIS -- In France's first airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, warplanes destroyed a training camp, President Francois Hollande announced on Sunday... READ MORE

27th September, 2015 1056

REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA


To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE

1st October, 2015 979

PHOTOGRAPHER S INCREDIBLE SELFIE FROM BURJ KHALIFA SHOWS WORLD AT HIS FEET


Mr. Ban's special envoy on the Ebola crisis, David Nabarro, also expressed doubts about achieving the Dec. 1 treatment goal in comments at the United Nations... READ MORE

23rd November, 2014 944

UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS


The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE

26th September, 2015 774

70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE


70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE

21st September, 2015 770

TUAREG FACTIONS TO BOYCOTT MALI PEACE CONFERENCE


Despite continued French troop deployments, a UN peacekeeping mission and years of peace talks, Mali remains beset by unrest and ethnic strife... READ MORE

25th March, 2017 752

SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS


In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE

26th August, 2015 710

TROOPS FROM CHAD AND NIGER TAKE ON BOKO HARAM


Facing direct engagement from government forces, Boko Haram has reverted to old tactics, bombing so-called soft targets in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri... READ MORE

9th March, 2015 621

UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS


For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE

12th August, 2015 612

MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015


The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE

10th July, 2015 593


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