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WEST AFRICA POPULATION PLANNERS BATTLE TO WOO MUSLIM HEARTS
On Niger's religious TV stations, preachers promise hellfire for anyone practicing family planning... READ MORE›
FRANCE TO TAKE REFUGEES RESCUED FROM LIBYA WHO 'NEED PROTECTION'
France will be the first to welcome African refugees evacuated from Libya to Niger by the United Nations refugee agency, French officials announced Monday... READ MORE›
U.S. SOLDIER IN NIGER AMBUSH WAS BOUND AND APPARENTLY EXECUTED, VILLAGERS SAY
The two Tongo Tongo villagers said they also saw the bodies of the three other American soldiers -- Staff Sgts... READ MORE›
AMID NIGER AMBUSH CHAOS, THE WHITE HOUSE FIRST THOUGHT SEVERAL AMERICANS WERE MISSING
I personally think the American and Nigerien force was just overwhelmed, the administration official said... READ MORE›
PENTAGON DEPLOYED ELITE COMMANDOS TO NIGER FEARING THAT MILITANTS WERE HUNTING MISSING SOLDIER, OFFICIALS SAY
Johnson, 25, worked as a mechanic and was attached to the 3rd Special Forces Group team... READ MORE›
U.S. SUSPECTS NIGER VILLAGER BETRAYED ARMY TROOPS
The joint U.S.-Niger team was initially sent on a routine mission to meet local tribal leaders and work with the Niger forces... READ MORE›
NIGER VILLAGER BELIEVED BETRAYED U.S. ARMY COMMANDOS, RESULTING IN DEADLY AMBUSH DURING AL-QAIDA HUNT
The joint U.S. and Niger team was initially sent on a routine mission to meet local tribal leaders and work with the Niger forces... READ MORE›
HOW DID US SOLDIERS COME UNDER ATTACK IN NIGER?
Sgt La David Johnson was one of four US soldiers killed in Niger earlier this month... READ MORE›
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›
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›
NIGER ATTACK: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TRAGEDY THAT LEFT 4 U.S. SOLDIERS DEAD
The team members killed in Niger were part of a contingent of about 800 U.S. troops in the country, U.S. Africa Command said... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THE NIGER ATTACK THAT LEFT 4 U.S. SOLDIERS DEAD
Today, there are about 800 soldiers assisting in the fight against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and Boko Haram, the Nigerian extremist militant group... READ MORE›
4TH U.S. SOLDIER DEAD AFTER AMBUSH ATTACK
U.S. officials say they believe extremists linked to the Islamic State group were responsible for the attack about 200 kilometers 120 miles north of Niger's capital, Niamey... READ MORE›
FOURTH US SOLDIER CONFIRMED KILLED IN NIGER AMBUSH
U.S. officials say they believe extremists linked to the Islamic State group were responsible for the attack about 120 miles north of Niger's capital, Niamey... READ MORE›
FOURTH U.S. SOLDIER IS FOUND DEAD AFTER AMBUSH IN NIGER
'This is the girl for me, Granny,' Sergeant Wright's grandmother, Elaine Trull, remembered him saying... READ MORE›
DEADLY AMBUSH OF GREEN BERETS IN NIGER BELIES A LOW-RISK MISSION
The firefight lasted roughly 30 minutes and involved less than a dozen United States troops and more than 20 Nigerien soldiers... READ MORE›
A DEADLY AMBUSH IN NIGER RAISES TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR TRUMP'S PENTAGON
Less clear are the circumstances surrounding their deaths Wednesday in an ambush in the Central African country of Niger, and the precise nature of their mission... READ MORE›
5 NIGERIEN SOLDIERS AND 3 U.S. GREEN BERETS KILLED IN AMBUSH
Namatta Abubacar, an official for the region of Tillaberi in Niger, said five Nigerien soldiers were among the dead... READ MORE›
3 U.S. ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMANDOS KILLED
The White House said President Donald Trump was notified about the attack Wednesday night as he flew aboard Air Force One from Las Vegas to Washington... READ MORE›
US TROOPS 'ATTACKED ON NIGER-MALI BORDER'
Media reports say three US soldiers and five Nigerien soldiers were killed in the ambush in south-western Niger... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS AFTER NIGER FLOODING
Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless in Niger after months of severe flooding... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Niamey
THIS CITY IS A TINDERBOX, AND THE US IS BUILDING A DRONE BASE NEXT DOOR
The sprawling desert north of Agadez, in the west African nation of Niger, is the size of France... READ MORE›
HEAVY RAINS DESTROY HUNDREDS OF HOUSES
According to Niger's government, the rains have killed at least 44 people in Niamey and other parts of the West African country since June... READ MORE›
DOZENS FEARED DEAD AFTER ABANDONED IN NIGER DESERT
Agadez is a remote town in Niger on the edge of the Sahara desert that has become a major people-smuggling point... READ MORE›
AS FLOOD WATERS RISE, IS URBAN SPRAWL AS MUCH TO BLAME AS CLIMATE CHANGE?
But others argue that urban development is as much to blame for the floods as climate change... READ MORE›
BURKINA FASO SECURITY FORCES ATTACK HOTEL
Burkina faso security forces attack hostage-takers at hotel... READ MORE›
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›
BOKO HARAM 'LEADER ABUBAKAR SHEKAU' CLAIMS BAGA RAID
Some were later freed as Cameroon's forces pursued the attackers who were fleeing back to Nigeria... READ MORE›
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›
NIGERIA MILITARY LEADERS FAULTED IN FIGHTING MILITANTS ARE FIRED
The Nigerian military's handling of Boko Haram's bloody six-year uprising has been widely seen as dismal... READ MORE›
JEB BUSH TALKS IMMIGRATION EDUCATION RELEASES EMAILS AS HE EYES 2016 BID
Attacks by the militant group, which is based in Nigeria, have increasingly spilled across borders in the region... READ MORE›
DESPERATION RISING AT HOME AFRICANS INCREASINGLY TURN TO RISKY SEAS
Mr. Thiam got a call from his brother, Amadou, 25, when he arrived penniless in Niger... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS FLEE NIGER TOWN AFTER BOKO HARAM ATTACKS
Boko Haram's insurgency has killed thousands in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAM LAUNCHES TWIN ATTACKS IN NIGER AND CAMEROON
Troops from Chad are already waging an offensive inside remote northeastern Nigerian territory and claim to have killed hundreds of Boko Haram fighters last week... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAM ATTACK IN NIGER 'KILLS 32 SOLDIERS'
At least 30 soldiers from Niger and two Nigerian troops were killed in a Boko Haram attack on Niger's border with Nigeria, Niger's defence ministry said... READ MORE›
NIGER FORCES KILL 109 BOKO HARAM MILITANTS IN BATTLE
Four soldiers from Niger were killed in the fighting against Boko Haram, whose insurgency is spreading from Nigeria to neighboring states... READ MORE›
REBEL ATTACKS KILL 19 UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS NEAR RAIL JUNCTION IN EAST KIEV MILITARY
Attacks by the militant group, which is based in Nigeria, have increasingly spilled across borders in the region... READ MORE›
NIGER HEADS TO POLLS WITH TOP CANDIDATE BEHIND BARS
Niger is electing a head of state on Sunday, as well as a new parliament, with President Issoufou hoping to secure a second five-year term... READ MORE›
FRANCES LAST HOSTAGE FREED BY AL-QAIDA IN MALI
Serge Lazarevic heads back to Paris amid claims his release was the result of a prisoner swap deal... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS WORLD FACES LARGEST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS SINCE 1945
Children's agency said almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen... READ MORE›
NIGER'S 'LION' PRESIDENT MAHAMADOU ISSOUFOU SEEKS RE-ELECTION
Security was tight, with forces on patrol across the country, the south-east of which has been plagued by attacks by Boko Haram jihadis from neighbouring Nigeria... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 44 MIGRANTS DIE EN ROUTE TO EUROPE
At least 44 migrants have been found dead at Agadez in Niger about 1000km from Niamey... READ MORE›
NIGER, CHAD FORCES ATTACK BOKO HARAM AFTER ISLAMIC STATE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Niger chad forces attack boko haram after islamic state pledge of allegiance... READ MORE›
KERRY MEETS IRAN MINISTER IN MUNICH ON NUCLEAR TALKS
Niger's army has troops based in Bosso, at the edge of the area of recent fighting with Boko Haram... READ MORE›
MALIAN NATIONAL PLEADS GUILTY TO THE 2000 MURDER OF U.S. DIPLOMAT IN WEST AFRICA
Alhassane Ould Mohamed, 46, admitted that he shot and killed William Bultemeier outside a restaurant in Niamey, the capital of Niger, on Dec. 23, 2000... READ MORE›
NIGER'S PRESIDENT ORDERS UNIVERSITY OF NIAMEY CAMPUS TO REOPEN
Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou has ordered the University of Niamey campus to reopen on Monday after a violent protest left one person dead... READ MORE›
44 MIGRANTS DIE OF THIRST IN NIGER WHILE CROSSING DESERT
A Niger official says at least 44 migrants have died of thirst after their vehicle broke down in the Sahara Desert... READ MORE›
NIGER STARTS VOTING IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Critics say Issoufou used repression ahead of the vote, including arresting opposition supporters and jailing opposition leader Hama Amadou over charges related to a baby-trafficking ring... READ MORE›