BAMAKO — Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has always been simple: cast their nets and provide for their family. But ...

Nigeria's Trans Niger Pipeline, a major oil artery transporting crude from onshore oilfields to the Bonny export terminal, ...

At least 27 people died when a boat capsized on the Niger River in central Nigeria, say authorities. The boat was carrying about 200 passengers from the state of Kogi to a food market in the ...

A new oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river, upending livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured ...

after a river boat transporting them capsized in the early hours of Monday in Nigeria, according to residents and the local police. The boat was sailing on the Niger River in the western state of ...

Earlier in the year, Dr Adeniyi Aremu, Managing Director of the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, North Central Nigeria, announced Federal Government plans to construct more dams ...

The Northern region comprised the entire present 19 states of the Niger River. It starts from the present Kwara, Kogi, Benue, up to Borno, Taraba, Sokoto and Kebbi. Eastern Nigeria covered the ...

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 ...