As the U.S. ambassador to the country, Eric Whitaker, gently puts it, “Niger is a good country in a rough neighborhood.” The historic Agadez city center is built of mud brick and dates to the ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in the northern Niger city of Agadez, local media and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said that Austria's embassy in Algeria ...

Last year, a little-known Canadian company won a contract with the government of Niger to construct a refinery in its oil-rich southwest. But civil activists inside and outside the country are now ...

The shortage hit some of Niger's towns first before reaching the capital, Niamey, where many petrol stations now have nothing ...