Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have officially severed ties with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ...

In response, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their exit last January and accused ECOWAS of failing to safeguard ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on Wednesday formally withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ...