A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting ...

The Commander, National Safe Schools Response and Coordination Centre, Emmanuel Ocheja, has disclosed that more security personnel would be deployed to schools to enhance protection and neutralise ...

The region of Western Africa comprises countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

When gunmen stormed St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri community, the children tried to escape but were told they ...

Managing Director of Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority (HJRBDA), Alhaji Rabiu Suleiman Bichi, on Tuesday commended President Bola Tinubu for his decisive and personal intervention in ...

On 8 December 2025, authorities in Niger State hosted 100 schoolchildren who were freed over the week-end, after being abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, on 21 November 2025. The ...

Findings by the Afrobarometer research network, which has repeatedly polled tens of thousands of African citizens, provide ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria says 100 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school last month have been released. More than 100 students remain in captivity. Gunmen attacked St.

The Niger State government has formally received the 100 pupils who were recently rescued by security forces after they were ...