France, Niger’s former colonial ruler, withdrew its troops from the African nation at the end of 2023. Niger’s junta-controlled neighbors Mali and Burkina Faso have also turned to Russia for ...

Russian foreign influence is slowly encroaching on the Sahel’s people, governments, and defensive mechanisms. Though ...

Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation's deepening security ties with Moscow, state television ...

The Kremlin is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send ...

French nuclear group Orano halted uranium output in Niger last month as relations soured with the military junta that seized power in July 2023. "We have already met with Russian companies that ...