Military head Oligui Nguema is the strongest candidate, but his ties to the old government have led to criticism.

Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family ...

The 24 December 2024 attack on Nigeria’s Forward Operating Base in Wajiroko in the country’s north-east, marked the first ...

Nationalistic behavior can put people, economies and ecosystems, and even peace, at risk. The US, which paused Columbia River ...

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity to remote ...

Nigerian energy firm Walcot Group has made a decisive leap into Angola’s oil and gas industry by signing a landmark Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the Angolan National Agency for Petroleum, ...

and Niger-Congo language families. Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Diss ECOWAS, Issue Own Passports This week, Niger’s transitional administration has downgraded the status of French and ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...

It wades through the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the local Bantu people told European explorers in the early 20th century. It’s thought to be the “size of something ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tiani, was on Wednesday sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation ...