Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane says he is disappointed they lost against Niger but says the team played well and he is still proud.
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/ 3 September 2011
Bafana Bafana are confident they will hand Niger their first home defeat in more than three years in an African Cup of Nations qualifier on Sunday.
South Africa have been promised a hot reception when they land in Niamey for their penultimate CAF Orange Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
The landscape of banana trees and a pineapple farm where some Ogoni live looks bleak, stained with oil, in air filled with dark smoke.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged cooperation to fight "terrorism" during talks with Niger’s leader.
Niger’s Tuareg rocker Bombino has recorded an album drenched in the pain and suffering of the Tuareg rebellions, but it also offers hope
for peace.
Niger is better known for its poverty, not fashion. But out of this dusty and arid nation has emerged a man as colourful as his creations, Alphadi.
Over 2,6-million people in Niger do not have enough to eat in the largely desert country which suffered one of its worst ever food crises in 2010.
<b>Phillippe Latour</b> travels to the Zinder region, in eastern Niger, to talk to communities most affected by bad harvests and malaria.
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/ 31 January 2011
Niger’s junta leader called on voters to turn out massively Monday to close the door on military rule by electing a new, civilian president.
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/ 10 January 2011
Suspected al-Qaeda kidnappers killed two young French hostages in ‘cold blood’ during a failed rescue operation in the deserts of Niger.
This is the front line of what has been called "Africa’s world war". More than five-million people have died, mainly from hunger and disease.
Tens of thousands of animals across Niger have died in the last few months; literally starving to death.
Expensive imports and aid remain out of reach for 12-million people facing country’s worst food crisis in years.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is nearly doubling aid operations in Niger to feed eight million people who have been affected by a severe drought.
Niger’s military junta has arrested a dozen close aides of former president Mamadou Tandja for allegedly plotting against the new authorities.
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/ 19 February 2010
President Jacob Zuma on Friday condemned the military coup in Niger, which he said posed a security threat to the region.
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/ 19 February 2010
African Union chief Jean Ping on Friday condemned the military coup in Niger and said he was following developments "with concern".
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/ 19 February 2010
Mutinous troops led by an army colonel captured Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja on Thursday, and said they were suspending the Constitution.
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/ 18 February 2010
Smoke was seen rising from the presidential palace amid heavy gunfire in Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Thursday in an apparent coup attempt.
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/ 20 October 2009
Ecowas on Tuesday suspended Niger after President Mamadou Tandja went ahead with legislative elections despite calls to delay the vote.
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/ 20 October 2009
Voting on Tuesday got under way in parliamentary elections in Niger despite an opposition boycott and calls for a postponement.
Niger police on Monday arrested an opposition leader who had attacked the president’s plans to extend his stay in office.
Niger’s president on Thursday claimed victory in a referendum aimed at allowing him to stay in power beyond his term, while the opposition cried foul.
Can cellphones make grain cheaper for a poor consumer or mitigate the impact of a food crisis on a country? Yes, says research released on Monday.
A Niger court banned a nationwide strike intended to start on Thursday to oppose President Mamadou Tandja’s plans to extend his stay in office.
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/ 18 February 2009
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa network has claimed responsibility for the abduction of two Canadian diplomats and four European tourists in Niger.
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/ 28 January 2009
Authorities in Niger have arrested the editor of a newspaper over an article on alleged government corruption, a media watchdog said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 December 2008
A Tuareg rebel group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Canadians, including a top UN envoy, who disappeared in Niger.
United States archaeologists have discovered the largest known burial ground of the Stone Age in the Sahara Desert, in Niger.
Police in Niger have arrested Hama Amadou, a former prime minister of the West African nation, on corruption charges, reports said on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2008
A court in Niger on Wednesday freed journalist Ibrahim Manzo on bail after he had been detained for more than four months without trial for alleged links with Tuareg rebels, his lawyer said. Manzo was jailed for ”criminal association”, accused of having connections with the Tuareg rebel Movement of Niger People for Justice.