River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa.

One of the most polluted places in the world is located at the heart of the Niger Delta where decades of oil exploitation ...

MINNA – Acute shortage of treated water in some parts of Minna, the Niger state capital and environs have led to the death of a teenager simply identified as Elizabeth. The late Elizabeth, who was ...

A 14-year-old girl, Elizabeth Peter, from Korokpa in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, has drowned in the ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

On the islands of the Niger River in northern Nigeria, there once lived the Gungawa people. They made their homes among the water, living in harmony with its flow.

[Courtesy] Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health ...

River Niger Black Mother follows the 4184kilometerlong River Niger from its source in Guinea through Mali Niger and Benin to Nigeria A passionate ode to the river the cultures that have arisen on ...

Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa. In Niger a ...

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. Niger is 'the fifth ...