Niger's military junta has announced plans to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason and undermining national security. This is the latest sign that the junta intends ...

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 ...

Russia has warned that military intervention in Niger would lead to a "protracted confrontation" after regional bloc Ecowas said it would assemble a standby force. Such an intervention ...

Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, who led last month's military coup in Niger, unveiled a 21-member Cabinet on Thursday, naming transitional Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as his finance ...

Niger’s deposed president is running out of food and experiencing increasingly dire conditions two weeks after he was ousted in a military coup and put under house arrest, ...

 A former rebel leader and politician in Niger has launched a movement opposing the junta that took power in a July 26 coup, a first sign of internal ...

Niger's coup leaders have closed the country's airspace until further notice, citing the threat of military intervention from their neighbours. It comes after the Ecowas group of West ...

France is preparing to evacuate its citizens from the West African nation of Niger because of anti-French sentiment following last week's coup. It has said it will also ...