Discover the exciting details about the Nigerian Independence Day history. Learn about the key events, leaders, and the ...

French army officer Paul Voulet forged a path of unspeakable barbarity across the African state of Niger to expand France's colonial empire. In BBC documentary African Apocalypse, British ...

The West African territory, now known as the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was first discovered in 1472 by three researchers from Portugal — Joao de Santarem, Lopo Goncalves, Pero Escobar, and ...

The EU has suspended all security cooperation with Niger after the country's army took power in a coup. It comes shortly after the US declared its "unflagging support" for ousted president Mohamed ...

Since it took control over the country in a July 2023 coup, Niger’s military junta has been cutting ties with France and forging stronger ones with fellow juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali.

Mansa Musa ruled for the next 25 years and used Mali's military might to control the trade routes of the Sahara and the Niger River, greatly expanding the wealth and power of the empire.