[Dabanga] Agadez -- Sudanese refugees in Niger are renewing calls for help as they endure dire conditions and escalating threats, according to testimonies shared with Dabanga, earlier this week. Khalil Obeid, a refugee, described his plight and detailed the harrowing experiences from Sudan's conflict to their current struggles in Niger.
[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- allAfrica 's Nontobeko Mlambo attended the 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) - the largest gathering of African investigative journalists on the continent - at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
[RFI] Niger has called on Russian firms to directly invest in uranium and other natural resource production, following the collapse of relations with former colonial ruler France and the eviction of French nuclear giant Orano from the country
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- African ministers attending the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi have been assured of Russia's 'total support' to the continent in 'different sectors', reports the BBC.
[People's Dispatch] Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions.
[People's Dispatch] Activists from across Africa and the world will gather in Niger from November 19 to 21 for the "Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel".
[VOA] Yaoundé -- Chad says it will withdraw its troops from the United Nations-supported Multinational Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, which combats Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
[Ghanaian Times] The Accra Sports Stadium will host Ghana's Africa Cup of Nations Match day 6 AFCON 2025 qualifier against Niger on Monday, November 18.
[RFI] French nuclear multinational Orano will suspend production at its Arlit uranium mine in northern Niger due to financial difficulties faced by its Nigerien subsidiary, Somaïr. The decision comes as border closures between Niger and Benin, triggered by the July 2023 coup, have blocked all uranium exports.
[Agenzia Fides] Niamey -- Pierluigi Maccalli, who was held hostage for more than two years by Salafist-inspired groups, has returned to Niger, the place of his kidnapping, to spend a few days (see Fides, 7/10/2024). This return coincides with the same date on which his captivity began in the savannah of Burkina Faso and then in the immense Sahara desert. A beginning and an en
[Premium Times] The extended closure has fuelled the smuggling by boat of migrants as well as licit commodities across the Niger Rive
[HRW] On October 10, Niger's junta leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, signed a decree provisionally removing Nigerien nationality from nine people linked to former President Mohamed Bazoum, who was ousted in July 2023 and remains wrongfully detained. The decree is based upon an earlier order establishing a database of people suspected of terrorism.