Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...

The omission of the New River Triangle from a map of Guyana, in the Caribbean Beat issue 188 (May/June 2025) has drawn concern from Guyanese. Efforts by Stabroek News to garner a comment from the ...

Search and rescue operations are ongoing as roads have been damaged and homes destroyed while bodies are believed to have been swept down the Niger River. Flash floods hit Mokwa, a market town ...

At least 117 people have died and several others are still missing after heavy flooding destroyed thousands of homes in Nigeria's Niger state, an emergency official said on Friday.

Jolliet in 1673 and the Cavelier de La Salle Expedition of the Mississippi River Valley. Bernou’s map shows the Black River just north of Fort McCoy. The next monumental map to display the Great ...

The flooding also destroyed over 3000 homes, forcing mass displacement. The Kainji Dam, located on the Niger River near New Bussa in Niger State, is one of West Africa’s largest dams.

Several soldiers were killed in a jihadist attack on Niger troops in the southwest of the country, a local source said Wednesday. The source said an army river brigade had been attacked in the ...

BAMAKO — Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has always been simple: cast their nets and provide for their family.

Lagos (EFE).- Local authorities confirmed on Sunday that the number of people killed in western Nigeria due to flooding caused by heavy rains on Thursday has risen to at least 200. The catastrophe ...

Husseini warned the toll could rise further, with bodies being swept down the powerful Niger River. Gideon Adamu, head of the Red Cross in Niger state, told AFP that search teams were heading ...

Previously, crossing the Niger River here meant hours waiting for a shaky ferry under a blazing sun. Since January 2021, this 640-meter bridge, part of the African Development Bank's Trans-Saharan ...