Niger News

The nightmare may be over for some 1,200 migrant workers and their families who had been stuck in Sabha waiting to be able to leave Libya.

Nigerian men who recently left war-torn Libya rest after arriving to their village, Dofalis, 190km away from Niamey, on September 8, 2011.

A leader of al-Qaida's North Africa branch said Thursday that future negotiations over the fate of five French hostages snatched from an African mining town must be conducted with terror network leader Osama bin Laden himself.

Some foreign leaders have recently extended their warm congratulation to China over the successful mission of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft.

An unpublished United Nations report blamed the world's 3,000 largest corporations for $2.2 trillion in environmental destruction, totaling one third of their collective profits.