Giacomo Zandonini

Dozens of for­eign dig­ni­taries at­tend Ni­amey cer­e­mo­ny tak­ing place two days af­ter the gov’t said it foiled coup at­tempt.

Some 7.5 mil­lion peo­ple are el­i­gi­ble to vote in sec­ond round pit­ting Mo­hamed Bazoum against Ma­hamane Ous­mane.

As coun­tries close bor­ders to curb spread of coro­n­avirus, aid groups in Niger ‘over­whelmed’ by re­quests of sup­port.

Niger mourns fall­en troops as Is­lam­ic State in West­ern Sa­hara Province claims re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for at­tack that killed 71.

As Niger strug­gles to con­tain il­lic­it trade, agents cite vi­o­lent episodes and say they have be­come ‘prey’ in the bat­tle.

Forced into pros­ti­tu­tion, Niger­ian women are vic­tims of a net­work that uses ‘fetish priests’ to ma­nip­u­late them.

AfCF­TA will like­ly com­pli­cate ex­ist­ing agree­ments with Africa’s main part­ners, in­clud­ing the Unit­ed States and Chi­na.

Thou­sands in Niger were em­ployed as mid­dle­men un­til the gov­ern­ment, aid­ed by the EU, tar­get­ed un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­gra­tion.

Sub-Sa­ha­ran mi­grants tell sto­ries of hor­ror, ac­tivists note that forced de­por­ta­tion from Al­ge­ria is an on­go­ing trend.

The UN­HCR chief trav­els from Libya to Niger, where asy­lum seek­ers wait to be re­set­tled in Eu­rope or North Amer­i­ca.