Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

A UK court heard a case brought against the international oil company Shell by communities in Nigeria’s Niger River Delta. The Ogoni people claim that decades of oil spills by Shell and its local ...

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is spread by infected blackflies in rural areas along rivers and lakes. Niger is the first African country and fifth worldwide to eliminate the ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, after trachoma, according to UN agency - Anadolu Ajansı ...