Nigeria describes Lakurawa as a new terror group. It is not. It’s been operating along the Nigeria-Niger border since 1999, ...

Gen. Edward Buba, the group with roots in Niger and Mali, reportedly gained a foothold in Sokoto and Kebbi States by cashing in on the total breakdown of the joint border cooperation between Nigeria ...

IDFA chief Orwa Nyrabia is promising "instant classics" at the 37th edition of the world's biggest documentary film festival.

Days after Mining Minister Ousmane Abarchi said that Niger was actively seeking to attract Russian investment in natural ...

Share The political and security vacuum left by Niger’s instability made it easier for the Lakurawas to recruit from the ...

A Nigerien-Ivorian journalist has been jailed in Niger over allegations he attempted to destabilise fellow junta-led Sahel nation Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast's consul to Niger said on Wednesday.

Niger wants Russian firms to invest in uranium and other natural resource production, its mining minister said on Wednesday, amid an ongoing dispute with former colonial master France.

The fuel, being smuggled through the Niger/Kwara border region, was intercepted by operatives from the NCS’s Operation ...

The Lake Chad region has experienced another significant security incident as insurgent forces clashed with Chadian military personnel, resulting in 17 soldiers and 96 militant casualties. The weekend ...

Following the unrest, the group retreated to Niger and Mali, sporadically crossing into Nigeria. After Niger's July 2023 coup halted border patrols, Lakurawa's presence in Nigeria has increased. The ...

Nigeria's military has said a new Islamist insurgent group from Niger and Mali, known as Lakurawa, was operating in the northwest and officials and residents said it killed 15 people last Friday in ...