West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

I have been receiving scores of social media posts, purporting real-time moments Fulani herdsmen were laying livelihoods of farmers mostly in the North East, North Central, South West and South East ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...