An image from Google Maps indicates with a red marker the Ogbaru area of Nigeria's Anambra state, where an overloaded boat capsized in the flood-swollen Niger River on October 7, 2022, leaving ...

The Niger River, which runs 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles), including more than 1,600 km (1,000 mi) in Mali, is becoming increasingly polluted, especially in Bamako. The water is now muddy and ...

Regular passengers of the "Tombouctou", a ferry whose route runs along the Niger River in northern Mali, are accustomed to hearing gunfire from the riverbank during their journeys.

A general view of the Niger River in Onitsha on February 27, 2023. Over 100 people are still missing after a boat packed with nearly 300 passengers sank in the Niger River on Monday, in ...

The Niger River—also known as the pulse of West Africa, sparkles under the bright afternoon sun of the Rio Grande camping site. Photo by: Linda Leila Diatta.

ON THE RIVER NIGER BRIDGE, Nigeria — After two hours spent in gridlocked traffic trying to cross a bridge spanning the mighty Niger River, despair kicks in. We’ve not moved an inch.

"The Niger River is 4,200km long, with 500km crossing into Niger." Millions of people depend on the region's natural resources, which in turn depend on the river, for fishing, grazing land, crops, and ...

But the inner Niger … Doomed by dams SEEN from space, it is a vast green and blue smudge on the edge of the Sahara desert. ... Niger river dams could displace 1.5 million.

The Niger River, its tributaries, and the Fati and Oro lakes, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above the African nation of Mali. iss068e030991 (Dec. 17 ...

A line of thousands of trucks stretches back 25 km (15 miles) from the muddy shores of the Niger River that marks the frontier. Drivers stranded for weeks hang their clothes between trucks.