The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

It straddles four countries, so the Governor of Niger Republic's Diffa Province, Governor of Cameroon's Far North region ... In Lake Chad Basin's case, most probably, the shrinking of the once mighty ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is “the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria ... Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease and is the second leading ...

announced that Niger has been verified for eliminating the transmission of onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness. The Mectizan Donation Program and Merck, known as MSD outside of the U ...

By Alfredo Quarto The intrinsic value of mangroves and their related coastal ecosystems is getting more recognition than ever before, while actions to conserve and restore our planet’s coastal ...

One person has died and six others injured in a dynamite explosion that occurred in Sabon-Pegi in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger. The Police Public Relations Officer in Niger, Wasiu Abiodun, ...