Niger

In Niger, the increase in attacks by jihadist groups in the north is hitting the agricultural sector hard. While the sowing season is in full swing, farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to access their fields, pastoralists are stranded in the south and thus miss the transition period. In the middle of the winter…

In Niger, a new massacre of civilians has been committed in the western country by suspected jihadists. At least 37 people were killed Monday afternoon in an attack in Darey-Daye, a village 40 km east of the town of Banibangou, near the border with Mali. It is a locked-in area in the Tillabéri region where atrocities perpetrated by armed Islamist groups have increased since the beginning of the year.…

Gunmen killed 37 civilians in a flashpoint region in western Niger where hundreds have died in extremist attacks this year, local sources said on Tuesday. The perpetrators "arrived by motorcycle" in the village of Darey-Daye in the Tillaberi region on Monday afternoon as people were working in the fields, a local official said. "The fee is very high - there were 37 dead, including four women and 13 children," the source said. A local journalist confirmed the charge and described the attack as "very…

An attack by armed men on motorcycles took place on Monday 16 August in the village of Darey-Daye, in the Niger region of Tillabéri. More than 37 civilian victims will be lamented, including 4 women and 13 minors. An event that is not isolated in this region where the jihadists have experienced serious setbacks in recent months.…

Following the August 8 attacks on several Malian towns attributed to the jihadists, near the border with Niger, which killed 42 civilians, there are now many displaced civilians. More than a thousand people have left their villages to go to Labbézanga, very close to the Niger border, or more within Malian territory. Voluntary organizations went there.…

A cholera epidemic has raged in Niger for several weeks, particularly in the regions of Maradi and Zinder, which border Nigeria, a country also affected by the disease. Niger's Minister of Public Health, if he wants to be optimistic, urges the population to mobilize. According to the authorities, 600 cases have been identified…

Fifteen people have been killed in an attack in western Niger less than two weeks after 33 people were killed by suspected jihadists in the same area, officials said on Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said in a…

With less than 6,000 cases of Covid-19 registered for 195 deaths, Niger is one of the least affected countries from a health point of view, but its economy is one of the most affected. And the impact of the pandemic has exacerbated the existence of uncertainty in production and exacerbated the number of Nigerians who end up in very great insecurity.…

Several officials were detained Wednesday night, July 28, 2021, in Niamey, for their alleged involvement in a case of embezzlement of eight billion CFA francs (12 million euros) from the Treasury. This case comes after last year of undelivered military equipment and overbilling in the defense sector for an amount of CFF 32.6 billion (EUR 50 million). .

The silver medalist at the 2016 Olympics, Abdoul Razak Issoufou Alfaga, was prematurely eliminated from the taekwondo tournament during the Tokyo 2021 Olympics on July 26. The Nigerian collapsed after his poor heavyweight performance. From our special correspondent in Tokyo,He was Niger's hope at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. But…