Niger’s former Minister of Petroleum, Mahaman Moustapha Barke, has been released from detention almost a year after he was ...

Attacks and diplomatic disputes are hampering oil flows through a China-backed pipeline running from Niger to Benin's coast. (AP Graphic) ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A China-backed pipeline that would make ...

Niger's former oil minister, Mahaman Moustapha Barke, has been released after being arrested by the country's military junta ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's junta has ordered three Chinese officials working in the oil sector to leave the country, two sources familiar with the decision told Reuters on Friday, in the latest move ...

Benin President Patrice Talon has prevented the start of oil exports from landlocked Niger because the military government in Niamey refuses to open its border with its southern neighbour. This border ...

The closure of the border between Niger and Benin, following the heavy sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) after the coup in Niamey on 26 July, did not prevent ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighoring Benin, both as a ...