The three countries have cut military ties with France The three nations, led by military governments, accused the regional bloc of becoming a threat to member...
Coup leaders say France has dispatched troops and equipment to Senegal, Ivory Coast and Benin as ‘part of preparations for an aggression against Niger’. Niger’s military...
Thousands of protesters gathered in Niger’s capital Niamey on Saturday, September 2 in the latest protests against the presence of French troops in the West African...
Niger Republic junta has cut off electricity and water supplies to the French Embassy in Niamey with no food deliveries allowed. Turkish news platform, Anadolu,...
Move comes as thousands gather at a stadium in the capital Niamey in support of the coup-makers. The new military rulers in Niger ordered the armed...
Yevgeny Prigozhin says mercenary group is recruiting people and ‘will fulfil the tasks that were set’. Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin posted his first video address...
Demonstrators chant slogans against former colonial power France and West African regional bloc ECOWAS after it vowed to restore ousted leader Mohamed Bazoum. Several thousand people...
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, (C), and leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meet to discuss the political situation in Niger, in...
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has ordered its standby force to restore constitutional order in NIger Republic. The President of the ECOWAS Commission,...
A former economy minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine has been named as Niger Republic’s new prime minister days after a military junta took over the affairs...
Niger Republic junta leaders have blocked a senior US official, Victoria Nuland from meeting the country’s elected President Mohamed Bazoum. On 26 July 2023, a coup...
The military junta in Niger Republic has closed the country’s airspace, warning that any attempt to violate it would meet with an “energetic and immediate response”....
President Bola Tinubu’s proposal for a military intervention to restore democratic rule in Niger Republic has been rejected by the senate. This is coming after the...
Chiefs of Defence Staff of the West African sub-region have commenced a crucial meeting at the Defence headquarters in Abuja over the coup in Niger Republic....
There’s been a blackout in Niger Republic days after a military junta ousted the country’s elected leader, Mohamed Bazoum. Niger’s electricity company, Nigelec, disclosed that the blackout...
Burkina Faso and Mali have warned ECOWAS against military intervention in Niger to restore deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, saying such a move will be considered a...
The military junta that seized power in Niger last week, has alleged that the ousted government has granted France permission to carry out strikes on the...
Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on Sunday July 30, in Abuja called for the immediate release and reinstatement of President Mohamed Bazoum as the...
The Federal Executive Council has approved the sum of N453.90bn for the procurement of rolling stock, operation and maintenance equipment for the Kano-Maradi standard gauge rail...
The Nigerian passport has been ranked 98th out of 199 countries in a new report released by Henley & Partners, a London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm....