Flowing for more than 4,000 kilometers through rainforest, savannah, and desert, the Niger River has long supported life ...

Severely affected by recent turmoil across its northern frontiers, Nigerien tourism pins hope on river valley attractions to play a major role in rebuilding its tourism industry in the upcoming years.

Families who have lived along West Africa's Niger River for generations have watched their livelihoods disappear as their fishing nets come up empty — or worse, filled with plastic waste. Fish stocks ...

CIWA deepens its engagement in West Africa and the Sahel region through a new partnership with the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) on the Niger River Basin Management Project The $7.5 million project to ...

Along the Niger River, in the Sahel of West Africa, Bawa Ousmane Goah uses some unusual measures - including peacemaking, genies, and the simple act of weeding - to ensure this vast and vital ...

The Federal Government has raised the alarm that the River Niger is drying up. To save the river from the fate that befell Lake Chad, the Federal Government along with countries bordering the River ...

The ‘Niger-Loire: Governance and Culture’ project, coordinated by the World Heritage Centre within the framework of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, and financed by the European Commission, ...

More than 100 people are now confirmed dead after a boat ferrying hundreds of wedding guests overturned Monday in the river Niger around north-central Nigeria, local police said. The vessel was ...

Over 100 people, predominantly women and children, are still missing after a boat capsized in northwestern Nigeria, authorities are reporting. The incident occurred on Monday night along the Niger ...