The European Union (EU) and the French Development Agency (AFD) on Thursday in Abuja launched the €40m worth second phase of ...

Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram has renewed attacks and kidnappings in northeastern Borno state with little push back ...

The WHO's pandemic exercise was the first test of a new global coordination mechanism called the Global Health Emergency ...

Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence ...

The RESILAC 2 (Lake Chad Inclusive Economic and Social Recovery) with co-funded by the European Union (EU) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), has ...

The Eselu of Eselu Kingdom in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, has called on President ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government ...

Nigeria's task in the northeast has also been made harder by Niger's withdrawal from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting armed Islamist groups in the Lake Chad region. MNJTF ...

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which also includes soldiers from Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, has been working to stem the insurgency since 2015, but progress has been hobbled by ...