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The Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, Aliyu Abdulhameed, has blamed poor railway infrastructure for the recent devastating flood in Mokwa, ...
France-based Orano, which holds a 63% stake in Somair, has been criticised by the National Union of Niger Mine Workers (SYNTRAMIN) for allegedly taking more than its fair share from the mine.
The African Union has suspended Niger following the takeover of the West African country by a military junta on July 26.
Niger has missed payments on interest and capital totalling 187.136 billion ($304 million) CFA francs since a July coup and its suspension from regional financial markets, data from the West ...
Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...
A small boat has sunk in the Niger River on the border between Niger and Benin, killing 13 people, locaBoat accident on Niger River claims 13 livesl sources told AFP Thursday. Niger’s military ...
U.S. Air Base 201 in Agadez, Niger, a vital military asset and the biggest construction job Air Force engineers ever undertook alone, has been mostly idle since a coup in July.
A general view of the Niger River in Onitsha on February 27, 2023. Over 100 people are still missing after a boat packed with nearly 300 passengers sank in the Niger River on Monday, in ...
In a tragic incident, at least 27 people died while over 100, including women were missing, after a boat capsized along the Niger River in central Nigeria, the local emergency management agency ...
The main mine workers' union in Niger has expressed support for the government's decision to nationalise the Somair uranium mine, amid ongoing tensions with the mine's operator Orano.