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Niger’s transitional president, General Abdourahamane Tiani, has announced a minor reshuffle of his government. Through a decree signed on Thursday, April 17, General Tiani reorganized his cabinet, creating three new ministries in the process. This government restructuring resulted in the dismissal of five ministers. Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine has retained his position as Prime Minister, […]
The Nigerien army announced on Wednesday that nine terrorists were neutralized during two operations carried out between Monday and Tuesday in the western part of the country. The first intervention, conducted on Monday along the Makalondi-Bankéré axis, allowed a military detachment to repel a group of assailants. Six of them were shot dead as they […]
In 2024, Niger detected 16,603 cases of susceptible tuberculosis, including 13,464 new cases of bacteriologically positive pulmonary tuberculosis, the Nigerien government announced on Monday. On World TB Day, celebrated on March 24, the Minister of National Education, Dr. Elisabeth Sherif, acting Minister of Health, highlighted the progress made in the fight against the disease. “The […]
At least 44 civilians lost their lives and 13 others were wounded, four of them seriously, in a terrorist attack on Friday in Fambita, a village in the Tillabéri region of western Niger. The announcement was made Friday evening by Niger’s Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Mohamed Toumba, on the Télé-Sahel television channel. […]
Niger has announced its withdrawal from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), a decision that continues the policy of rupture initiated by the Niamey authorities with Western institutions since the coup d’état of July 2023. According to a diplomatic note signed by Laouali Labo, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this withdrawal […]
