Images posted to social media show the approaching wall of dust descending on the city. Residents said the storm turned the sky dark, right in the middle of the day. Other images showed the dust ...

NIAMEY, Niger — An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger's Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to ...

"That's it, time to go!" As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards his house in Niger's capital Niamey, Mamoudou Barkire is finally leaving. Relentless floods have battered several parts of the ...

Local Nigerien missionaries are shocked and saddened; foreign workers there provide training, aid, and encouragement.

Kevin Rideout, a Christian missionary in Niger, was taken from outside his house in Niamey last month. U.S. officials are scrambling to track him down.

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian foreign ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...