Gen. Tchiani, leader of the military regime in Niger, raises his fist at a July celebration in Niamey to mark one year since the coup that brought him to power (Getty Images) |Published 12:05 PM ET, Friday April 04, 2025| ​Niger’s recent decision to withdraw from the Multinational Joint Task ...

|Published 1:45 PM ET, Thursday April 03, 2025| ​On April 3, 2025, the foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger convened in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to enhance military and security cooperation between their nations and Russia. This meeting marks the inaugural session of the Alliance ...

|Published 10:30 AM ET, Thursday March 27, 2025| Niamey: General Abdourahamane Tchiani, who led the coup in June 2023, has been officially sworn in as Niger’s transitional president for a five-year period under a new charter that replaces the nation’s constitution. This move consolidates his authority and defies regional efforts ...

|Published 12:45 PM ET, Tuesday March 18, 2025| ​Niamey: Niger has officially withdrawn from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the global association of French-speaking nations, further distancing itself from France, its former colonial power. This decision follows a series of actions by Niger’s military government to reduce French ...

|Published 9:45 PM ET, Saturday March 15, 2025| ​Niger is currently experiencing a severe fuel shortage, leading to long queues at gas stations and significant disruptions in daily life. This crisis has compelled the Nigerien government to seek assistance from Nigeria, resulting in the approval of 300 fuel trucks being ...

Niger’s former president, Mohamed Bazoum |Published 12:30 PM ET, Saturday February 15, 2025| UN: The United Nations has called on the military junta in Niger to release the country’s former president, Mohamed Bazoum, who was ousted in a coup in July 2023. The international community, including the UN, has been actively ...

Published 3:15 PM ET, Wednesday 22, 2025 More than 600 Nigeriens have been forcibly deported from Libya on a “dangerous and traumatising” journey across the Sahara, in what is thought to be one of the largest expulsions from the North African country to date. The recent expulsion highlights the ongoing ...

Heads of state of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali at the First Summit of the Alliance of Sahel States Published 11:55 AM ET, Friday November 22, 2024 Niamey: Ahead of the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” in Niamey, iNewsAfrica shares stories of Niger’s tenacity and resistance, ...

Malian Transitional President Assimi Goïta in St. Petersburg, with President Vladimir Putin, July 29, 2023. A recent claim by a Ukrainian government official that the country helped Tuareg rebels to massacre Russian forces and Malian troops in Mali has led to diplomatic cutoffs by Mali and some neighboring countries. August ...

Story by: MARK BANCHEREAU August 06, 2024 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.S. handed over its last military base in Niger — one of two crucial hubs for American counterterrorism operations in the country — to local authorities, the U.S. Department of Defense and Niger’s Ministry of Defense announced in ...