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

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 ...

Using AI and satellite imaging, scientists found that 5,644 hectares of mangrove forests are lost annually in the Niger Delta ...

Political camps in Rivers State are either challenging or defending the relevance and legacies that Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms ... They were farmers, potters and metalworkers who settled near the River Niger around 500BC. The kingdom of Ife developed in the rainforest ...

Battlefield maps from independent groups show ... See how people across the world welcomed the Year of the Snake. Africa: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have officially left the West African ...

One such event is the three-and-a-half-month Berlin West Africa Conference which took ... of free navigation of the Congo and Niger rivers, the creation of an internationalised free trade zone ...

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

driving people away from rivers, which are often lifelines for livelihoods", added Matshidiso Moeti, the agency's director for Africa. The WHO said a key factor in Niger's success was the ...

Africa is a beautiful continent ... contribute to its ecological and economic significance. The Niger River, which spans 2,600 miles (4,180 kilometers), starts near the Atlantic Ocean, travels ...