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The French army will have left Mali at the end of August 2022 after nine years of commitment. But the French military effort will continue in the partnership with the Nigerians, says the current commander of the Barkhane force, General Laurent Michon. He is a guest at RFI.

Mohamed Bazoum arrived on Thursday, June 23 for a 48-hour state visit to the Ivory Coast. A visit that will come when ECOWAS holds a summit in Accra on July 3, when the situation in countries that have experienced recent coups will be discussed in particular:…

The trans-Saharan gas pipeline project (TSGP) has been relaunched. This 4,000-kilometer gas pipeline project, which would have its source in Nigeria, would cross Niger to reach the Algerian coast for export to Europe. The Nigerian, Algerian and Nigerian…

The NGO Doctors Without Borders calls for the creation of humanitarian corridors for asylum seekers stranded in Libya, often victims of torture and abuse in Libyan detention centers. Now safe and sound in Niger, two former detainees told our correspondents about their terrible ordeal. They were able to leave Libya thanks to the Emergency Transfer Mechanism, a program set up by UNHCR to evacuate migrants to Niger. Nearly 4,000 people have been evacuated from Libya through this mechanism since 2018.

Local authorities in northeast Nigeria are encouraging Nigerian refugees who have fled the Niger border to return home. Boko Haram's violent tyranny is the main reason they left... The threat in the region has not gone away.

Several attacks on a column of motorcycles made it possible to neutralize "almost forty terrorists" on June 14 near the border between Niger and Burkina Faso, the French army's general staff announced on Thursday. . The Barkhane force, after leaving Ménaka…

New tragedy in Burkina Faso. "After the attack on the Seytenga gendarmerie's territorial brigade on Thursday, which caused eleven Pandora's deaths, it was a real murderous…

In Niger, President Mohamed Bazoum continues his visit to the western part of the country to meet displaced people. Yesterday (Thursday) he was in the area of ​​the three borders (Burkina Faso-Mali-Niger) in the Téra region which is under pressure from the…

After Senegal, Niger launched special flights. It is about several hundred citizens with wives and children who, according to officials, pollute the image of their country abroad. as reported from Niamey,…

Already as the winner over Uganda in the first match, the Algerian team made two passes on Wednesday, June 8, by winning in Tanzania by the same score (2-0). Fennecs are alone in the top of Group F in the CAN 2023 qualifier. In the second match this second…