The rhythmic whirring and click-clack of several machines stitching away is audible a few feet from a wooden shack in the middle of a refugee settlement in Ouallam, the chief town of Ouallam ...

In the dusty plains outside Ouallam, a town some 100 kilometres north of Niger’s capital Niamey, verdant rows of vegetables sprout from the soil in neat plots. Adding further contrast to the parched ...

NIAMEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Niger's junta said late on Thursday that 400 French soldiers based in the southwestern town of Ouallam would be the first to pack up in a withdrawal that is dealing a further ...

France has completed the withdrawal of troops from a northern base in Niger as part of a planned departure from the West African country in the wake of July's military coup. Nearly 200 troops, 28 ...

OUALLAM, Niger—The front lines in the war between the West and militant Islamists have shifted to Africa, from Somalia on the continent’s eastern tip to the West African Sahel, a semidesert strip ...

OUALLAM, Niger (Reuters) - The village of Ouallam in Niger, with its sand-choked alleys, crumbling mud huts and crippling poverty, is a world away from Athens, Europe's cradle of Western civilization.

At Ouallam military base in western Niger, France's fabled Foreign Legion and local troops work side-by-side, and the tricolour that floats over the camp is the ochre, white and green flag of Niger.

A teacher and her pupils play in a yard at a school near a site for displaced people on the outskirts of Ouallam, Niger in October 2022 - Copyright AFP Fabrice ...

Nigerian commandos simulate a raid on a militant camp during the U.S. sponsored Flintlock exercises in Ouallam, Niger. Islamist militants killed 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in ...