[CAF] The stage is set for an electrifying weekend as the second-leg matches of the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers unfold.

[CAF] Niger became the latest team to secure a spot in the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) following a goalless draw against Togo in their second-leg encounter on Friday.

[Premium Times] "Any attempt to blackmail Nigeria over ECOWAS's principled stance against the unconstitutional seizure of power in the Niger Republic is both disingenuous and doomed to fail."

[allAfrica] The leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger reaffirmed that their decision to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is irreversible, reports Russian news agency TASS.

[Afrobarometer] Large majorities say their region has seen more intense droughts and floods during the past decade.

[U.S. Mission to the UN] New York -- AS DELIVERED

[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.