Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Niger just announced its elimination of river blindness. In 1976, the disease had a prevalence rate in the country of 60%.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating onchocerciasis-- also known as 'river blindness' -- a parasitic disease caused by a ...

Using AI and satellite imaging, scientists found that 5,644 hectares of mangrove forests are lost annually in the Niger Delta ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness. His wife, in her 70s, sits nearby, her body covered in scars beneath her ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also known as river blindness — and the fifth worldwide, according to WHO.

A UK court heard a case brought against the international oil company Shell by communities in Nigeria’s Niger River Delta. The Ogoni people claim that decades of oil spills by Shell and its local ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is "the fifth ...

River Niger Black Mother follows the 4184kilometerlong River Niger from its source in Guinea through Mali Niger and Benin to Nigeria A passionate ode to the river the cultures that have arisen on ...

Programmes to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, like river blindness and trachoma (pictured), do more than just restore health - Simon Townsley ...