A once thriving Saharan tourist city with a rich but fading heritage faces harsh realities two years since Niger’s coup.

International criminal gangs have exploited instability in Sahel countries to build flourishing drug and human trafficking ...

At Agadez, he noted, the U.S. doesn’t need to share facilities with the French military or commercial aircraft. And it is, he said, “more strategically located than Niamey.” ...

Niger says it will open an investigation into the sale of a Martian meteorite discovered in the West African country’s Agadez region in 2023.

The fight against terrorism is taking to the skies -- of Africa, that is. The U.S. military announced plans to build a $100 million temporary base in Agadez ...

Agadez, Niger - Ousmane Kouyate* stands beside a petrol station on National Road 25 that runs through Agadez, more than 900km north of Niger’s capital Niamey. The thin 25-year-old from Guinea is ...

Agadez’s tourist trade was killed off by the Tuareg rebellion of the early 1990s. In recent years it has been a stopping-off point for hundreds of thousands of west-African migrants.

A Swiss citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Niger's city of Agadez, according to local authorities and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. This is the second citizen ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...

NIAMEY, Niger – Niger's government spokesman told The Associated Press that the jihadists who attacked a military installation in the town of Agadez on Thursday had never taken any hostages ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous ...