Tensions between Niger and Benin have escalated further over a decision by Cotonou to prevent its landlocked neighbour from using its port to export its first crude oil, as a border dispute ...

Today my colleague Aanu Adeoye writes about a new 2,000km pipeline project between landlocked Niger and its southern coastal neighbour Benin. Pipelines, along with other energy infrastructure ...

COTONOU, May 15 (Reuters) - Benin has provisionally reversed its decision to block exports of crude oil from Niger via its port and agreed to hold a meeting between the two countries, the West ...

NIAMEY, May 12 (Reuters) - Niger's Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said on Saturday that Benin's blockade of Niger's oil exports, imposed in response to a border closure, violated trade ...

U.S. and Nigerien leaders have agreed to a phased withdrawal of American forces from Niger “as soon as it’s feasible in the coming months,” another U.S. official told VOA on Thursday.

Demonstrators in Agadez, Niger, demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops during a protest in late April. (Issifou Djibo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) A U.S. delegation will ...

US and Nigerien leaders continued high-level talks Friday on plans to withdraw all American military forces from the country, a US military official told VOA. Our Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb ...

The US is trying to negotiate an agreement with the military junta that took over Niger last July to leave behind a small contingent of US forces, even as a broad withdrawal order has been ...

Demonstrators in Agadez, Niger, last month demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. (Issifou Djibo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) NIAMEY, Niger — A crucial ...

The prime minister of Niger said neighboring Benin had violated trade agreements between the two nations and Niger’s Chinese partner by blocking crude shipments from Benin. Benin last week ...

A U.S. delegation will present the government of Niger this week with detailed plans for shuttering two key American bases and withdrawing all troops, officials said, as the Biden administration ...