Floods across 10 states of Nigeria have killed 100 people, a spokesman for the country's emergency and disasters agency said on Monday (September 17). Heavy rains in recent days has resulted in a national disaster in four states - Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.

Floods across 10 states of Nigeria have killed 100 people, a spokesman for the country's emergency and disasters agency said on Monday (September 17). Heavy rains in recent days has resulted in a national disaster in four states - Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.

The Azawak valley, a Florida-sized area spread over Mali and Niger, used to have the best pastoral lands in West Africa.

The top U.S. general said on Monday he had no information that Army special operation forces involved in a deadly attack in Niger earlier this month had taken too many risks.

Military veterans, friends and family gather in Florida for the funeral of Sgt. La David Johnson, who died this month when his patrol was ambushed in Niger.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday the U.S. military did not have all the accurate information on an ambush in Niger earlier this month that killed four U.S. soldiers.

Bashir Ama was a people smuggler in Agadez, a desert city in Niger known until recently as the people-smuggling capital of Africa. But conditions have changed, and Bashir Ama has opted to fund a football team instead.

Nigeria has reopened two important trade routes which had been closed for years because of attacks by Boko Haram.

Known as the 'Magician of the desert', Nigerien fashion designer Alphadi is about to open the 10th edition of his International Festival for Fashion in Africa, or FIMA, in Agadez.

Amateur video purports to show Boko Haram fighters clashing with soldiers in southeast Niger's Bosso town.

Obstetric fistula affects around a million of the world's poorest women, and is widespread in the West African nation of Niger, which has the highest birthrate in the world. The condition is caused by a complicated labour and causes chronic incontinence, often leaving its victims as social outcasts