An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and ...

A Nigerien-Ivorian journalist has been jailed in Niger over allegations he attempted to destabilise fellow junta-led Sahel nation Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast's consul to Niger said on Wednesday.

The son of one of Mali's top politicians says the country's ruling junta has arrested his father for criticizing the military rulers of neighboring Burkina Faso ...

A Malian dissident was detained in the capital Bamako Wednesday under pressure from authorities in Burkina Faso, who accused him of making "extremely serious remarks" against the neighbouring ...

TO Abolaji Azeez Aleshe, popularly called BJ, kidnapping while fully armed is an easy way to make money. It is a thriving ...

Niger's military junta has banned the French aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, or Acted, from ...

In this report, Vanguard Law & Human Rights captures the perspectives of senior lawyers, academics, and rights activists on the decision by President Bola Tinubu's government not only to slam ...

John Yang speaks… AP source: Former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbed in prison Derek Chauvin ... of the military coup in Niger closed the country's ...

A former inmate of Wales' only privately run jail has been sent to prison after he posted on a Facebook group a video of a staff member restraining a prisoner. Zachery Griffiths, 32, from Llanelli ...

Homeless prison leavers are twice as likely to reoffend than those with a permanent place to live, official figures released for the first time show. Statistics published by the Ministry of ...

THE idea of an ultramodern market befitting the cosmopolitan the city of Ibadan, Oyo State, was the vision of the late ...