Etran de L’Aïr ("stars of the Aïr region") are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that's ...

As heavy rainfall pelts southern Switzerland, canton Valais has issued a weather warning and Ticino is set for a wet Easter.

The decision by the military-led Alliance of Sahel States to impose a 0.5% tariff on goods from rival ECOWAS nations has ...

Jihadists are assumed to be behind the recent kidnapping of a Swiss woman in Niger, the latest in a series of abductions in ...

Solar panels like the ones on the roof of Elhadj Abdou's house are an increasingly common sight in Niger's capital, which is ...

A Swiss citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Niger's city of Agadez, according to local authorities and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. This is the second citizen of a ...

A Swiss woman has been kidnapped in the same Niger city that saw the abduction of an Austrian three months ago, officials ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the release, on 04 April 2025, of eight refugees and asylum-seekers residing at the Humanitarian Centre in Agadez. Following their arrest on 25 March, UNHCR met ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the release, on 04 April 2025, of eight refugees and asylum-seekers residing at the Humanitarian Centre in Agadez. Following their arrest on 25 March ...

Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence against civilians in north-west Nigeria.