EU is interested in working with Türkiye and countries of the region in order to forge broad international coalition that can ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency ... But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

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NITE (41A: "Day 'n' ___" (Kid Cudi hit)) "Day 'n' NITE" is Kid Cudi's debut single, released in 2008. Kid Cudi released a remix of "Day 'n' NITE" in 2009. NITRO (25A: Drag racing fuel) Drag racing ...