(AP Photo, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against ...

Death toll from Saturday’s fuel tanker explosion in Niger State has reached 98, with 69 injured and 20 shops razed. On Monday, the Federal Government said victims still battling for life had ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Maryland is going into a key stretch of its conference season with games against No. 12 Ohio State and top-ranked UCLA this week. The eighth-ranked Terrapins could be missing ...

The death toll in the petrol tanker explosion at Dikko Junction near Suleja in Niger State has risen to 86, with 55 persons injured and receiving treatment at the hospital. By Saturday when the ...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Paige Bueckers scored 18 points to surpass 2,000 in her career and No. 6 UConn cruised to a 96-36 win over Seton Hall on Sunday. Bueckers scored points No. 2,000 and 2,001 ...

A fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in northern Nigeria has killed 86 people and injured dozens, the country’s national emergency agency said. The blast happened in the early hours of ...

Opening four restaurants in two years is not an easy feat, but somehow restaurateur Felicia Wilson has done just that. Amina, BlackHen, Fia and now her latest venture AVANA are officially all open ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian foreign ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a ...

She said, “It reflects the misunderstanding of the profound culture and the cultural significance of Kwanzaa for a lot of African Americans, not only in Phoenix, not only in Arizona, but across the ...

Suriname's former dictator Desi Bouterse died of liver failure at age 79, an official autopsy revealed. Bouterse's body was dropped off Tuesday at his residence in the capital Paramaribo by ...