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Niger
Population: 14.6 mn.
GDP: 5.5 bn.
Debt: 0.6 bn.
Overview:

President Mahamadou Issoufou's most serious challenge will be to absorb 250,000 Nigerians who fled Libya and to cope without their remittances. He will back Mali in the campaign against Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Food security remains tenuous but oil and uranium revenues boost the budget.


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  • Vol 52 No 5
  •  4th March 2011

The EU pays but keeps silent

Opposition candidates declared the first round of the presidential election on 23 January tainted (‘vicié’), putting President François Bozizé’s 64.7% share of the vote in doubt (AC Vol 51 No 25). The European Union, which had paid 60% of the cost of...

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Coup-makers fall out

Having seized power in a relatively popular coup, vowed to hold elections and tackled a food crisis, Niger’s military junta, headed by Major Salou Djibo, looked to be sitting pretty (AC Vol 51 No 19). It was attracting foreign support for its plans for e...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Niger, Mauritania, Mali: the politics

For Niger, the crisis with Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) comes as the military regime that overthrew President Mamadou Tandja last February approaches the return of democracy.

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

A food crisis foretold

The Niamey junta is tinkering with its transition programme but it is better at handling a food emergency than the previous regime Aid workers have been warning for some time now that millions of people in Niger will go hungry again this year. When they d...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

Confusion after the coup

The new military rulers promise an anti-corruption purge and elections but are thin on detail

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

A coup to stop a coup

The officers who threw out President Tandja must quickly prove they’re serious about constitutional rule

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Who's who in the Nigerien coup

Salou Djibou, commander of the main armoured unit in Niamey, led the assault on the Presidency which culminated in the capture of President Mamadou Tandja and his ministers on 18 February. He is now President of the Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de...

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

President Tandja goes for a third term

He may deny it but President Mamadou Tandja began the process of changing the constitution to prolong his mandate in December 2008

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Competition for Niger's uranium

Niger is the world's third-largest uranium producer, extracting about 3,300 tonnes per year. Prices rose to US$55 per pound in June, up more than 35% since April; nuclear power is back in fashion and competition for supplies is heating up. Uranium exports...

  • Vol 48 No 19
  •  21st September 2007

Revolt in the desert

As uranium, and maybe oil, raise hopes of income, northern Tuareg rebels have gone to war again

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