The appointment of China's new defence attache to Niger signals a larger move by Beijing to fortify security in Africa, ...

West Africa’s intensifying instability guarantees this. The Boss’s job is to manage the flow. As a passeur, he sits at the top of a shadowy network, possibly the biggest in Agadez, consisting ...

As barriers to travel through Libya eased, Agadez experienced increased demand for smuggling services and an expansion of smuggling networks. By 2013, an influx of people from throughout West Africa, ...

Nearly 400 people died in Niger and more than 1.5 million others were affected by floods triggered by last year's ...

At a time when Africa is convulsed by various threats and American interests could be at risk, United States influence is in retreat.

In 2016 construction began on a new U.S. Africa Command or AFRICOM base in Agadez, Niger, 730 kilometers northeast of the capital Niamey. The U.S. had received permission for such a base in 2014, a ...

On 5 February, I travelled to Agadez alongside Mr. Mohamed Abdou ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items daily ...

The 40-year-old guitarist hails from Agadez, a remote part of the West African nation Niger. His contemporary take on Saharan desert blues on songs like “Oh France,” acts as a syllabus shining ...

Observed at 14:00, Sunday 2 March BBC Weather in association with MeteoGroup, external All times are West Africa Standard Time (Africa/Niamey, GMT+1) unless otherwise stated.

but was unlikely to replace the assignment of French and American troops in Niger or try to replace the former American counterterrorism drone base at Agadez. For China, protecting African ...