Last month, democratically elected Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown in a military coup. West African regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to invade Niger in order to reinstate order in ...

The deadline arrived Sunday for Niger’s military junta to reinstate the country’s ousted president, but the West Africa regional bloc that has threatened a military intervention faces prominent ...

The head of Niger’s junta, which overthrew democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum in July, has met with a delegation from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS. During the meeting, the junta ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta authorized troops from neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso to come to its defense and asked the French ambassador to leave the country Friday, raising the stakes in a ...

Kevin Rideout, a Christian missionary in Niger, was taken from outside his house in Niamey last month. U.S. officials are scrambling to track him down.

Last Friday, Niger’s military junta in Niamey gave French Ambassador to Niger Sylvain Itté a 48-hour deadline to leave the country. The deadline to expel the French ambassador comes after Niger’s ...

NIAMEY, Niger — One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No military ...

Niger’s military leaders have accepted an offer from Algeria to mediate following the July 26 coup that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, though warned they will ultimately decide on a timeline for a ...

NIAMEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Niger's junta said late on Thursday that 400 French soldiers based in the southwestern town of Ouallam would be the first to pack up in a withdrawal that is dealing a further ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The leader of mutinous soldiers who ousted Niger’s democratically elected president said Saturday night that they will return the country to civilian rule within three years. Gen.

NIAMEY, Niger — Niger’s mutinous soldiers closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack, as the new ruling junta defied a deadline to reinstate the ousted president.

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