Tag: Coup

The African Union faces internal rifts over how to respond to the Niger crisis AFP The African Union said Tuesday ...

A supporter of Niger's military regime pictured in Niamey on Thursday. The words mean 'Forwards' AFP Fears for Niger's detained ...

The possibility of military intervention in Niger appears to have faded AFP Two weeks after the coup in Niger, France ...

After the military took power, Niger's neighbours stopped transmitting electricity to the poverty-stricken Sahel country AFP The long-suffering people of ...

Niger's PM, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, held talks with the French foreign minister in Paris on Saturday AFP Pressure on the leaders ...

France's Sebastien Lecornu said the junta had taken the president and people of Niger hostage AFP The coup in Niger ...

Niger played a key part in Western strategies to combat a jihadist insurgency that has plagued the Sahel since 2012 ...

France's nuclear fuel firm Orano, formerly part of Areva, operates a uranium mine in the north of the country, employing ...

Junta supporters, some holding anti-French slogans and some waving Russian flags, gathered in the capital Niamey AFP West African leaders ...

General Abdourahamane Tiani appeared on state television on Friday to declare himself Niger's new leader AFP The African Union demanded ...