A vast, arid state on the edge of the Sahara desert, Niger has seen a series of coups and political instability in the decades following independence from France in 1960. Today the country struggles ...

In July of 2023, Niger experienced a coup that shook its political landscape. Military officers ousted the elected government, leading to instability and uncertainty for its people. The international ...

Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) -France's ambassador to Niger arrived in Paris on Wednesday, around a month after the military junta ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat ...

Chances are you'll never get to go to Niger. I never thought I'd get to go there either. It's landlocked and mostly desert. The only non-African cities that offer direct flights are Paris and Istanbul ...

The gunshots began in the middle of the night late in 2018. Ali Bakara, a twenty-eight-year old mother of eight, was jolted awake. It was three o’clock in the morning in her village near Maiduguri, in ...

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Aug. 1, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. The coup in Niger follows similar coups in ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) -Niger's junta has demanded that the top United Nations official there leave the country within 72 hours over accusations that Niger was excluded from the annual U.N. gathering of ...

NIAMEY, Niger - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons applaud the ground-breaking adoption by Niger of a national law for the ...

Dublin, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Niger Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report provides an executive-level overview ...

The presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger at 3am on July 26. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders and ...

A Niger general who runs the country's presidential guard declared himself the country's new leader on Friday, two days after he led his soldiers in a coup d'etat that overthrew the nation's president ...