This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

Niger just announced its elimination of river blindness. In 1976, the disease had a prevalence rate in the country of 60%.

An international research team led by the University of Galway has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta, pinpointing where crude ...

Nigeria has called on the Africa Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) to prioritise the establishment of a combined maritime task force to enhance security in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG).

Scientists detail scale of devastation to mangroves using satellite imagery, AI and imaging techniques used in healthcare settings ...

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It is a familiar story to many in Niger Delta's Rivers state. Paulina Agbekpekpe told the BBC that ... the SPDC, to Renaissance Africa, a consortium of local and international companies. Some locals ...

Niger has become the first country in Africa to be recognized by the World Health Organization for interrupting the transmission of onchocerciasis, or river blindness. The milestone marks a ...

However, in parts of West Africa, analysts say ECOWAS suffers from a legitimacy crisis, with citizens seeing it as representing only the interests of leaders and not theirs. Relations between ECOWAS ...

The Gambia River Development Organization (OMVG ... The construction of a 913 km 330/225 kV transmission line connecting Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria under the North Core Interconnection ...

Niger is the first country in Africa to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, WHO announced. Image: Adobe Stock “Onchocerciasis has long caused immense human suffering ...

As payment of $30m or N45Bn counterpart funding by the Niger Delta Development commission (NDDC) begins, training of over 4,250 agropreneurs has kicked off in Port Harcourt for Rivers State indigenes.