US agrees to withdraw troops from key drone base in Niger
The United States agreed Friday to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its position in West Africa, where the country is home to a major drone base.
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at least 19 dead in the attack on a bus returning from
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 galley of eight Rwandans in exile acquitted by ICTR and
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…
after the attack on Baroua, the hope of persevering against Boko
Although sixteen soldiers died in the attack on Baroua, near Nigeria, on the night of August 25, no civilians were injured or killed. Niger's defense forces therefore opposed Boko Haram's jihadists. According to the ministry, about 50 terrorists have been neutralized. Baroua was not by chance: this municipality is the first where the state organized the relocation of displaced persons as part of its…
Boko Haram’s murderous raid on a village being reinvested by
Baroua is the first village affected by the operation to return to the village of internally displaced Nigerians. The attack killed 16 Nigerian soldiers and about 50 in the terror camp.
as reported from Niamey, Moussa KakaIt was the positions of the army and the National Guard that secured the village of Baroua, which was…
Nigerien army repels Boko Haram attack, says 16 soldiers killed
Hundreds of Boko Haram militants overnight attacked a military post in southeastern Niger, killing 16 soldiers and wounding nine others, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
About 50 of the Islamist militants were…
Tillabéri deputies challenge the authorities
Deputies from the Tillabéri region of Niger - 18 signatories out of a total of 26 - are challenging the country's authorities in a statement on the security situation in this part of the country.
In the course of a month, 98 civilians and 19 gendarmes were killed in three of the six departments in the region, elected officials…
the rise in terrorist attacks is hitting hard
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…
An upsurge in attacks on civilians in the West
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.…
37 dead in western Niger after new attacks by
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…