BENGHAZI, Libya/AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) - Libya's new leaders sent envoys to neighbouring Niger on Wednesday to try to prevent Muammar Gaddafi and his entourage evading justice by fleeing across a ...

Authorities in Niger say they have seized 278kg of cocaine in the country’s largest drug bust to date. The operation took place in the eastern city of Zinder and led to the arrest of eight suspects ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's government warned its people on Sunday they could be targeted by roving militias if they travel to Libya, as tensions rise between the neighbouring countries over Niger's ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, evacuated 172 vulnerable asylum-seekers out of Libya to safety in Niger on the evening of 4 November. It was the first evacuation flight to Niger in more than a year, ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Niger’s interior minister says France and the United States should intervene in southern Libya “to eradicate the terrorist threat” in the region. In an interview with Radio ...

In a step towards regularizing labour migration, Libya and Niger today signed a memorandum of understanding that seeks to protect migrant workers through effective work visa issuance before employment ...

The convoy entered the Sahelian country late Monday and drove through the city of Agadez, a stronghold of the former Tuareg rebellion Gaddafi once supported, a local military source said on condition ...

By Ramatu GarbaSome illegal migrants to Libya who were part of 497 Nigerians repatriated by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) from Niger on Friday lamented their ordeal in the North ...

NIAMEY, Mali (AP) — Niger’s president says suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern Libya. President Mahamadou ...

Countries are only "slowly" making headway in meeting promises to relocate stranded refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya and Niger, a senior UN official says. Nearly 48,000 people are in Libya, some ...

With American troops no longer welcome in Niger after a military coup, the U.S. is looking for new allies in the region, including Libya, the top official for Africa Command said Monday. “We’re ...