NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has extended a state of emergency in the southeastern region of Diffa for three months after a series of attacks by Boko Haram, the government said late on Friday. Attacks by ...

Outside the Diffa grand mosque in Niger’s southeast, two soldiers stand at the ready, rifles pointed at the wave of worshippers walking towards them. Unbidden, the men raise their “boubous”, the ...

Floods in southeast Niger have forced 23,000 people to flee their homes since early October, officials said Saturday, threatening a new humanitarian crisis in a region already wracked by Boko Haram ...

15 June 2016 – Faced with a new wave of displacement following recent Boko Haram attacks in Niger’s south-eastern Diffa region and with needs on the rise, the United Nations food relief agency plans ...

Niamey—In a small camp set up on the outskirts of Gueskérrou, a locality in the Diffa region in Niger near the Nigerian border, Amina, 34, describes the conditions in which she has lived since fleeing ...