It’s the least developed country in the world, according to the United Nations Human Development Index. But Kara VanderKamp still has to remind people not to forget Niger. With all the foundations, ...

Sixty-eight children have died as a result of severe acute malnutrition in the Niger State. The Niger State Nutrition Officer, Hajiya Asmau Mohammed disclosed this at a two-day review meeting on ...

Boubacar Halirou is an aid worker who helps to identify children suffering from severe malnutrition in a remote village in Niger. Boubacar Halirou is an aid worker who helps to identify children ...

18 July 2008 - Some 150,000 children in Niger are set to benefit from a $1.2 million donation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for school equipment from the charity Dubai Cares. Basic ...

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. >> Basketball has always been a part of Yacouba Sangare’s life, along with his wife, Tracy, and he has made it a mission to give back through basketball to his native Niger. After ...

From the ringside, Niger’s ex-heavyweight boxing champion Abdoul Aziz Ousseini, aka “Aziz,” gives guidance to his young trainees at a boxing club in the capital, Niamey. About 10 young people drawn ...

Niger State is fast becoming a Mecca to citizens of neighbouring Niger Republic as they troop into the state in their numbers in search of greener pastures. Yesterday in Minna, 30 children from Niger ...

Some 2.9 million children in Niger are to be vaccinated against measles during a week-long integrated immunization campaign now under way with United Nations support. "The overriding goal is to ...

Miyahi - Now that Niger's most vulnerable have been mostly taken in hand, relief agencies are widening their ministrations to children who feel only a gnawing ache in their bellies - those at ...

Five children, in the Albishiri area of Minna, the Niger State have died owing to suffocation inside an abandoned vehicle. According to reports, the kids went missing on Sunday morning before they ...

MARADI, Niger — Nasseiba Ali is the face of hunger in Niger. The 20-month-old girl weighs just 12 pounds, and her eyes are clouded at night, one of the symptoms of her chronic malnourishment. Nasseiba ...