Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told ...

Washington has announced that it will withdraw all forces from Niger, which hosts a secretive US military base from where ...

Niger’s prime minister blamed the U.S. for the deterioration of relations between the two countries as roughly 1,000 American ...

After Niger, another West African state is calling for an end to 'French occupation'. Senegal's new PM criticises the ...

Russian military personnel have entered an airbase in Niger where some U.S. troops are located ... Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that Russia was, "developing ties with ...

Months later, in January, Niger's junta leaders agreed to enhance their military cooperation with Russia and, just last week, a Russian transport plane arrived in the capital Niamey reportedly ...

Junta-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalised plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia.

Russia's deputy foreign minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, recently visited Sudan, where he met Gen. Abdul-Fattah Burhan, commander ...

Niger’s prime minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine has said that the military relationship between the African country and the ...

Senior GOP senators are voicing concern over President Biden's Africa policy. This follows Niger and Chad telling U.S. troops ...

But as Niger's military government moves to sever those ties, the country – and others in the region – has been increasingly turning to Russia to deal with security threats. Earlier this month ...

Increasingly, they are partnering with Russia instead. American diplomats have sought in the past several weeks to salvage a revamped military cooperation deal with Niger’s military government ...