China has helped remake Niger's energy sector, but pay disparities and unequal employment roles have caused friction.

Niger expelled three Chinese oil executives in a dispute over disparities between the salaries of expatriate staff and ...

Nations once relegated to the margins of economic discourse are now sprinting toward prosperity, their trajectories propelled ...

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which also includes soldiers from Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, has been working to stem the insurgency since 2015, but progress has been hobbled by division ...

Petrol station attendant Amadou Sani gesticulated to approaching motorists in Niamey to keep going because the garage had no more fuel. At the few garages in the city centre that still had fuel on ...

Niger last year signed a memorandum of understanding with CNPC worth $400 million linked to the sale of crude oil from its Agadem oilfield. The Niger junta has torn up defence agreements with the ...

The country also exports crude oil via a pipeline linking Agadem in northeastern Niger to the port of Seme-Kpodji in Benin -- although they were disrupted for several months by a spat between the ...

Niger’s partnership with China began in 2008 ... $400 million memorandum of understanding for shipments of oil in the Agadem oilfield.