NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — 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 ...

Migrants crossing the Sahara desert into Libya ride on the back of a pickup truck outside Agadez, Niger. (Reuters / Joe Penney) The bus station at Agadez was sleepy; the hot season was coming, and by ...

Wild-eyed with matted hair after four days in the searing Sahara sun, Ibrahim Kande climbs out of the pick-up truck he has ridden from Libya back to dusty Agadez in central Niger. Currently the ...