Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman, PM of the African country's interim government, in his address accuses France of "destabilising" ...

Niger’s Prime Minister Lamine Zeine used the UNGA stage to deliver a fiery defense of Sahel sovereignty, calling out France ...

Niger’s mutinous soldiers, which overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, have ignored international demands to reinstate the deposed leader. The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, has threatened to use ...

A Niger general who runs the country's presidential guard declared himself the country's new leader on Friday, two days after he led his soldiers in a coup d'etat that overthrew the nation's president ...

At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders ...

Mamadou Tandja, a former Niger president who twice won election after the country's return to civilian rule in 1999 but was overthrown a decade later after altering the constitution to stay in power, ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s new military ruler lashed out at neighboring countries and the international community in a nationally televised speech Wednesday night, and he called on the population to ...

The government of Niger and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have signed a financing agreement worth $144.7 million ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Niger fashion designer Alia Bare took center stage at the Joburg Fashion Week with a collection that she hopes will spread a positive image of her troubled country, suffering from ...

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Aug. 1, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. The coup in Niger follows similar coups in ...

Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that ...