Bello Tukur, the state's Commissioner for Secondary and Tertiary Health, attributed the illness to untreated severe malaria and typhoid.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about the growing tensions at the Humanitarian Centre near Agadez town and their impact on our ability to deliver services to those seeking assistance and ...

Earlier this month, soldiers swooped by helicopter into a vast mining complex in western Mali and made away with three tonnes of gold -- all done on the orders of the military government.