[IFJ] Niger's military junta has suspended the BBC on 10 December for three months with immediate effect. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns this high-handed assault on media freedom and the deliberate attempt by the military ...

[AI London] On 3 December 2024, Moussa Tchangari, a human rights defender and secretary general of the civil society organization Citizens' Alternative Spaces, was arrested in Niamey, Niger's capital. He was at his home when at least three gunmen in ...

[allAfrica] The military government of Niger suspended the BBC for three months, reports the international broadcaster. Niger's Minister of Communication Raliou Sidi Mohamed announced the decision, accusing the BBC of "spreading fake news to destab...

[CPJ] Dakar -- Nigerien authorities have suspended the U.K. government-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for three months and announced the Nigerien government would bring a complaint of "incitement to genocide and inter-community massacr...

[People's Dispatch] From the small peasants to farmers with relatively large land-holding, Niger's farming community explains to Peoples Dispatch why they support the popular anti-France military government.

[AI London] Niger's military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, as he is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights, Amnesty International, H...

[HRW] Paris -- Niger's military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, who is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights, Amnesty International, ...

[Afrobarometer] Most favour tighter regulation of natural resource extraction to reduce its negative impact on the environment.

[RFI] French nuclear group Orano has announced that authorities in Niger have taken "operational control" of its uranium mining unit, in an escalating conflict between the company and the country's ruling junta.

[Africa Check] No evidence for claim that Nigerian minister Wike was banned from presidential villa during Indian prime minister's visit

[Afrobarometer] Poor citizens are less likely to say help for vulnerable children is available in their community.

[Dabanga] Agadez -- Sudanese refugees in Niger are renewing calls for help as they endure dire conditions and escalating threats, according to testimonies shared with Dabanga, earlier this week. Khalil Obeid, a refugee, described his plight and detai...

[People's Dispatch] Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions.