Tuareg rebels fighting the government of Niger released their last hostage on Sunday, an interior minister said on state TV.

The president of Niger acknowledged Tuesday that a Canadian diplomat who disappeared during a U.N. mission to the West African nation last month was kidnapped by rebels.

A rebel group has backed away from an earlier claim of responsibility for the abduction of a U.N. diplomat on the outskirts of Niger’s capital.

Tuareg rebels claim they have kidnapped a United Nations envoy to Niger.

An international aid group will leave Niger because the government unexpectedly terminated its medical and nutritional program in one of the country’s drought-prone districts, an official announced Thursday.

Dozens of land mines accidentally exploded Sunday in Niger during a ceremony in which a group of former rebels were handing over arms, killing one person and wounding about 40 including the regional governor, the government said.

Government troops clashed with ethnic Tuareg rebels in the northwest African nation of Niger Friday, leaving at least 17 people dead, according to statements by both sides.Though the government and the rebels confirmed fighting around the town of...

A woman who says she was held as a slave for 10 years took Niger’s government to court on Monday for allegedly failing to implement its own laws banning slavery, the first case of its kind in the West African nation.The case of Hadijatou Mani, 24, was...

A Niger judge ordered the release on bail of two French journalists potentially facing the death penalty for reporting on rebel groups in the country’s northern desert, their lawyer said Friday. He added they would be allowed to return to France pending..

A radio journalist in Niger has been arrested on charges of passing government secrets to Tuareg rebels during interviews, officials said Saturday.Moussa Kaka, a reporter for Radio France International and director of a private radio station that has...