Niger

Libya's south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists

2013-03-30 16:57:00

SABHA, Libya — Their fatigues don't match and their pickup has no windshield. Their antiaircraft gun, clogged with grit, is perched between a refugee camp and ripped market tents scattered over an ancient caravan route. But the tribesmen keep...

France says it won't negotiate to free kidnapped family

2013-02-26 09:41:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The stakes are high for France: the lives of four French children, their parents, a relative and nine other French hostages being held by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Nigeria and Mali. But France, entrenched in a war in...

Want to fight terrorism? Educate women

2013-01-25 00:00:00

The jihadists stoning women to death in Mali and taking hostages in Algeria are harbingers of much worse to come. Osama bin Laden may be dead, but Al Qaeda in Africa now threatens an area twice the size of Germany. Mali is just one country in the Sahel,...

As Malala recovers, U.N. marks International Day of the Girl Child

2012-10-11 13:42:46

Locusts menace already hunger-stricken Mali and Niger

2012-06-07 16:41:48

Mexico stops plot to smuggle Kadafi son into country

2011-12-07 16:37:51

A million face severe malnutrition in the Sahel, UNICEF warns

2012-01-27 16:39:13

Who are the Tuareg and how do they fit into the coup in Mali?

2012-03-23 16:38:40

Libya military convoy arrives in Niger

2011-09-06 00:00:00

Prosecutor: Mercenaries aiding fugitive Kadafi son

2011-10-28 16:37:32

Kadafi son Seif Islam reported captured in Libya

2011-11-19 16:37:41

TUNISIA: Libyan soldier surrenders, details bomb plot

2011-08-22 16:32:38

A Malian soldier (C) escorts prisoners after they arrived by boat in Kadji, on the Niger river on March 1, 2013.

2013-03-01 00:00:00

Niger's Hamadou Djibo Issaka during the rowing competition on Tuesday.

2012-08-01 05:52:10

A Tuareg woman with painted face attends the "Cure Salee" festival in Ingal.

2011-09-18 00:00:00