Sources: Al Jazeera
At least 47 people and 300 cattle are killed, 70 others are injured and over 56,000 are displaced during flooding in Niger. 2025-08-21
At least 44 people are killed and thirteen others are injured in an attack on a mosque in Fambita, Niger. The Ministry of National Defense blames the Islamic State. 2025-03-21
The Zimbabwean Ministry of Health reports that a new cholera outbreak that started in December 2024 has reached eight districts and infected nearly 300 people, causing one death. 2025-01-17
Six Nigerien soldiers are killed in an attack on the Niger–Benin Oil Pipeline in Dosso region, Niger. 2024-06-13
Russian military personnel enter the United States–operated Niger Air Base 101 near Diori Hamani International Airport in Niger. 2024-05-2
Three Nigerien soldiers are killed when their military helicopter crashes while attempting to land at Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger. 2022-12-26
The Algerian Civil Defence says that 20 people were killed and 11 others injured when a vehicle carrying illegal migrants overturned in Tamanrasset. Tamanrasset is a crossing point for illegal migrants from neighboring countries, specifically Mali and Niger. 2020-12-31
At least 229 people die in a cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone, the worst outbreak in the country for 15 years. 2012-08-30
Niger proposes reforms that would see only those with a university degree be allowed to run in presidential elections and parliamentary candidates be under the age of seventy and have some form of secondary education. Opposition groups say this discriminates against the 80 per cent of the population that is illiterate. 2010-05-24