The river basins affected by the current leadership vacuum include the Chad Basin Development Authority, which covers areas ...

One of the most polluted places in the world is located at the heart of the Niger Delta where decades of oil exploitation ...

River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa.

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is 'the fifth ...

River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa. In Niger a staggering 70 ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).