Benin has blocked crossings of the river that marks the border with neighbouring Niger, sources told AFP on Thursday, in an ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.

She said, “One of the things I asked the committee for is that the Director General of the Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority should show us or give us a list. Senator Ireti Kingibe ...

The bridge over the Niger River, linking the Beninese city of Malanville and the city of Gaya in Niger - a key transit point for migrants and both licit and illicit trade - was therefore ...

Additionally, 11 bodies, nine men and two women, were recovered from the river. "The search and rescue operation is still ongoing to locate more survivors," Abdullahi Baba Arah, head of Niger ...