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FILE: The season, which runs from June to August or September, has become deadlier in recent years, including in Niger's desert north. Picture: freeimages.com

Niger

15 people dead, 23,000 others affected by rainy-season floods in Niger

By AFP

The worst-hit regions are Zinder in the south of the arid Sahel state, followed by Maradi and Diffa, also in the south.

  • FILE: Burkina Faso army officers patrol near a French armoured vehicle parked in Kaya, capital of Burkina Faso's north-central region, after people protest to oppose the passage of a large French army logistics convoy in transit to neighboring Niger, on November 20, 2021. Picture: Olympia de Maismont / AFP

    Seven police officers, 4 soldiers die in Niger attacks

    Niger's interior ministry said "unidentified armed bandits" attacked the Petelkole police station near Burkina Faso in western Niger and a military base in Djado in the country's desert-covered far north.

    121 days ago
  • FILE: Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum. Picture: Bernd von Jutrczenka/AFP

    Niger pushes for peace with jihadist talks

    Thousands of civilians have died, more than 2.5 million have fled their homes and 10.5 million are facing crisis levels of hunger, according to the United Nations.

    148 days ago
  • A boy living in a displacement camp in Tillabéri region, Niger. Picture: Mamoudou L. Kane / Amnesty International

    21 people killed in attack on bus in Niger, say sources

    Suspected jihadists attacked a bus and a truck in Niger, killing 21 people in the southwestern Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso, local and security sources said.

    149 days ago
  • Niger flag. Picture: Supplied.

    Five Niger soldiers killed in IED explosion

    Three soldiers were wounded in the blast, which occurred on Friday when an army patrol vehicle ran over the IED, the ministry said in a statement carried on national television.

    160 days ago
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    UN judge orders 8 Rwandans tried for genocide to be sent to Tanzania

    Judge Joseph Chiondo Masanche ordered for "all necessary measures" to be taken "immediately" to send the eight to Tanzania until they could be transferred somewhere else, according to a copy of his order obtained by AFP on Tuesday.

    185 days ago
  • FILE: The drug, as well as the two suspects and their vehicle, were brought before the press in Niamey by the Sahel nation's drug agency OCRTIS after the operation on Sunday. Picture: freeimages.com

    Niger makes record cocaine seizure, arrests mayor

    Police following the trail of a quantity of drugs smuggled in from Mali found 214.6 kilos of cocaine in a municipal car from Fachi, whose mayor was also aboard, OCRTIS spokeswoman Nana Aichatou Ousmane Bako said.

    220 days ago
  • The United Nations flag. Picture: @UNFCCC/Twitter

    UN orders Niger to suspend expulsion of eight Rwandans

    The Rwandans' lawyers had argued that Niger had committed to host the group, after they answered before the international criminal tribunal for their roles in the genocide.

    221 days ago
  • FILE: Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum. Picture: Bernd von Jutrczenka/AFP

    As a region prone to terrorist activity, Niger opens first military school

    "We have set in place with this school the final link in the chain for training our military," President Mohamed Bazoum said at the opening ceremony.

    302 days ago
  • A boy living in a displacement camp in Tillabéri region, Niger. Picture: Mamoudou L. Kane / Amnesty International

    Armed groups killing, recruiting more children in Niger: Amnesty

    Amnesty blamed the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), for causing the 'devastating impact on children' in the region.

    334 days ago
  • FILE: The six cases were in the capital Niamey, the ministry's press office said, adding that efforts to track and trace contacts of the patients were under way. Picture: 123rf.com

    First COVID Delta cases emerge in poverty-stricken Niger

    The six cases were in the capital Niamey, the ministry's press office said, adding that efforts to track and trace contacts of the patients were underway.

    344 days ago
  • FILE: Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum. Picture: Bernd von Jutrczenka/AFP

    Niger declares national mourning after 37 killed

    Gunmen on motorbikes launched an attack on villagers Monday in Darey-Daye as they were tending their fields. Four women and 13 children were among the 37 people killed.

    360 days ago
  • Survivors of the jihadist attack in Zaroumadareye sit at the hospital in Ouallam, Niger, on January 9, 2021. Picture: Souleymane Ag Anara / AFP

    Jihadist violence claims 420 lives in Niger this year: watchdog

    The estimate comes after an 11-day trip in which members of the Human Rights Watch travelled to Niger to meet witnesses, traditional chiefs, local authorities, foreign diplomats and Nigerien rights activists.

    367 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Supplied.

    49 killed in Niger armed attack

    Around 100 heavily armed 'terrorists' riding motorcycles attacked the Tchoma Bangou village, striking around 3 pm on Sunday, Niger's Ministry of Defence said in a statement read on public television that did not identify who it suspected was behind the latest deadly incident.

    397 days ago
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    Niger reopens land borders as COVID 'under control'

    Niger has been relatively unaffected by the epidemic, reporting 5,457 cases including 193 deaths, according to official figures.

    421 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Supplied.

    Niger army killed 24 'suspected terrorists': government

    The suspects had been planning an attack on the market town of Banibangou but the army was alerted and, after an exchange of fire, 26 people were arrested on April 28, the defence ministry said in a statement.

    467 days ago
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    Chad junta refuses to negotiate with rebels

    "The time is not for mediation, nor for negotiation with outlaws," Azem Bermandoa Agouna, spokesman of the military council that took power last week following the shock death of veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno.

    474 days ago
  • Niger's newly elected president Mohamed Bazoum gestures as he delivers a speech at his party headquarter after the announcement of his election in Niamey, on 23 February 2021. Picture: Issouf SANOGO / AFP.

    Niger president to be sworn in after 'attempted coup'

    The inauguration will mark the first-ever transition between elected presidents in Niger's six decades of independence from France -- a historic moment that has been widely praised.

    498 days ago
  • Niger's newly elected president Mohamed Bazoum gestures as he delivers a speech at his party headquarter after the announcement of his election in Niamey, on February 23, 2021. Picture: Issouf Sanogo / AFP.

    'Attempted coup' in Niger ahead of presidential inauguration

    Residents earlier reported hearing gunfire in the middle of the night near the presidency in the capital Niamey.

    500 days ago
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