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The military juntas of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed a treaty Saturday to confederate 72 million people into the Alliance of Sahel States (ESA), a move they say will not only allow the three nations to eradicate the scourge of jihadist violence from their countries but also build a new economic alliance that will reshape West Africa.

Violent clashes between CSP, the permanent strategic framework, which brings together all the signing groups of the 2015 peace agreement, and EIGS, the Islamic State in Greater Sahara, have been going on for almost three weeks. , in the Gao region. , in the…

A few days or weeks before the vote in the Nigerian Assembly on the military cooperation agreement between the Nigerian army and Barkhane, the French army is preparing. Since March 1, Colonel Hervé Pierre, the new commander who will coordinate Barkhane's…

The districts of the Nigerian capital and some regions will be lively from Sunday 27 March all week. For good reason, the 2nd edition of Film Week will be held there and where about forty films will be shown. An initiative by young African directors who want…

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Nearly 600 Nigerians arrived in Niamey from Senegal overnight from Friday to Saturday in a repatriation operation. A report from Senegal revealed the living conditions of many Nigerian migrants begging on the streets of Dakar. The Nigerian government is…

We were able to discuss with lawyers and the families of the prisoners. They informed us that it was almost impossible to visit the Koutoukalé prison for the families, and also increasingly complicated for the lawyers. The supply of food or medicine has been limited since November 2021. Therefore, families can not bring food and the ban on the supply of medicine and food to prisoners becomes very complicated. If we know that there is only one ward, these are not things that should be tolerated in…

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A bus from a Nigerian transport company was attacked on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 by a group of heavily armed jihadists on the Dori-Tera axis. At least 19 passengers, including the bus driver who returned from Ouagadougou, were killed. Niger's Interior…

The eight Rwandans who were released by the ICTR and released after serving their sentences are still waiting in Niger. By early December, they had been transferred from Arusha to Niamey on the basis of an agreement between Niger and the UN mechanism…