A new armed group has threatened to carry out attacks on Niger’s uranium mines in protest against marginalization of the minority Toubou population.

Ten people have been killed and thousands of others left homeless as rains unleashed floods in vast areas of Niger, the UN says.

Chad has sent some 2,000 troops to neighboring Niger to help the fight against Boko Haram following last week’s terrorist attacks by the Takfiri militants in the Nigerien town of Bosso.

A court in Niger has denied bail to a jailed leading opposition contender in the upcoming landmark presidential elections scheduled to be held across the West African country next month.

Niger's army chief has said that the landlocked West African country is close to winning the war against Takfiri Bako Haram terrorist group.

Nigerien opposition presidential candidate, Hama Amadou, has been arrested over child trafficking charges upon returning to the West African country from exile.

At least 14 Takfiri Boko Haram militants have been killed in clashes with Nigerien army forces after an attack by the group in southeastern Niger.

Niger’s parliament has unanimously voted to deploy troops to neighboring Nigeria to join a regional fight against Boko Haram terrorists.

At least five people have been killed in a bomb blast in Niger’s southern border town of Diffa amid growing Boko Haram militancy in the region.

Nigerien police forces have fired tear gas at protesters demanding revocation of a ban on demonstrations against anti-Islam cartoons published by French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

Police have fired tear gas at demonstrators in Niger, who continued their protest against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad today, AFP reports.

Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has pledged to keep its peacekeepers in neighboring Mali a day after nine of them were murdered by armed gunmen.

Amnesty International has accused major oil companies, including Shell Petroleum, of making false claims on Niger oil spills that caused an appalling environmental impact on the region.

More than 85 migrants have died of thirst in a desert in northern Niger just a few kilometers from the Algerian border.

The United Nations children's agency says at least 2,500 children under the age of five have died of malnutrition in the Western African country of Niger this year.

A United Nations report says over 360 children under the age of five have died of malnutrition in the West African nation of Niger during first nine months of this year.

A United Nations report says over 360 children under the age of five have died of malnutrition in the West African nation of Niger during first nine months of this year.

Nigeria's northern state of Yobe ordered on Sunday to close all the secondary schools after a Saturday school massare in which at least 20 students lost their lives, according to a government statement.

Niger's government spokesman said that 22 prisoner escaped this weekend during an attack on the central prison by suspected militants from the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, headquartered in Nigeria, Niger's larger neighbor to the south.

Heavily armed gunmen have attacked a prison in the center of Niger's capital, Niamey, killing at least two security guards and injuring several others.