A Russian-built SU-24M bomber crashed into Niger River near Gao, Mali, a day after a major Africa Corps–FLA clash. The cause remains unknown.

Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...

99% of cases of the disease are in Africa – impacting millions of people. It can cause itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a ...

In Niger, it’s been years since Dr Salissou’s team treated the last river blindness patients and started down the long road toward certification for elimination. Increasingly, young people have never ...

The WHO’s verification is the culmination of nearly 50 years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness.

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world. River ...

With the Second River Niger Bridge, inter-state travel within the region becomes more convenient. Social and economic integration also becomes more enhanced.

The Niger River (4,200 km long) is the third longest river in Africa and the largest in West Africa. The Niger Inner Delta (NID) is in Mali, between the Markala dam (Ségou region) and the region of ...

As the principal touristic attraction after the Sahara Desert, the Niger River has been an integral element for the advancement of tourism in the Sahel Region.