NIAMEY (Reuters) - Severe flooding in Niger this month has killed 51 people and destroyed thousands of homes after torrential rains caused rivers to burst their banks, authorities said on Monday.

The Niger State Governor Mohammed Bago has unveiled plans to construct 3000 new modern homes for Internally Displaced Persons in the state. Arewa PUNCH reports that the state IDPs run into several ...

NIAMEY, Niger – The United Nations refugee agency says at least 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in southeastern Niger after a series of attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram ...

Three people were confirmed killed and 40 houses destroyed at the Sabon Pegi, Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State on Sunday following a dynamite explosion that rocked the area. The Niger ...

The Islamist armed group Islamic State in the Sahel Province (IS Sahel) has escalated attacks on civilians in Niger since March 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks violated international ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger have destroyed safe houses owned by human trafficking networks for sheltering illegal migrants and forcibly turned back anyone without a valid identity document ...

The Patriotic Forum of Niger Delta (PFND) has called on lawmakers in the nine Houses of Assembly in the Niger Delta to enact anti-grazing law to end the incessant herdsmen/farmers clashes. A statement ...

NEW YORK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - An attack blamed on Boko Haram killed 28 people and burned 800 homes in an attack in Niger's Diffa region on Saturday, Nigerien authorities and the United Nations said.

NIAMEY, Niger — More than 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in southeastern Niger after a series of attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, the United Nations refugee agency ...