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	Niger
Population:	28.08m
GDP:	$19.59bn
Debt:	48.57% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 65 No 14 |

BURKINA FASO
MALI
NIGER

The juntas dig in as instability worsens

4th July 2024

Burkina’s leader Captain Traoré wants five more years in power but his army is losing badly against the jihadis

The standing of Burkina Faso’s transitional leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in September, has hit a new low. But public opinion is the least of his...

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Vol 65 No 14 |

NIGER
FRANCE

Niamey junta cancels France’s Orano permit in uranium mine

25th June 2024

The regime’s action against the French nuclear group sends a message to Paris and may open to the mine to a Russian investor

Niger’s military junta’s decision to revoke the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at the Imouraren mine in northern Niger, which sits on an estimated 200,000...

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Vol 65 No 13 |

BENIN
NIGER

Patrice Talon tests strength of General Tiani’s junta

12th June 2024

Vitriol flows both ways as hopes fade of a speedy end to the fight between Niamey and Cotonou

The arrest of five Nigérien oil technicians in Benin at the beginning of June has sparked accusations of ‘kidnapping’ and ‘hostage-taking’ from General Abdourahamane Tiani’s regime and has...

Vol 65 No 10 |

BURKINA FASO
MALI
NIGER

The juntas are running out of excuses

9th May 2024

Populist rhetoric and ethnic targeting by the military regimes are deepening the region's fault-lines

The lean season in the Sahel this year is starting under the toughest economic and political conditions for generations. Mali and Burkina Faso have been baked by a...

Vol 65 No 9 |

NIGER

Yellowcake woes

25th April 2024

Junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani has fallen out with companies promoting potential uranium mines over the pace of their development.

Vol 65 No 7 |

General Tiani swaps the US for Russia

27th March 2024

Annulling its defence agreements with Washington, the Niamey junta strengthens ties with Moscow and Tehran

Severing military ties with the United States on 16 March, three months after France closed its embassy in Niamey, General Abdourahamane Tiani's Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de...

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Vol 65 No 5 |

NIGER
ECOWAS

Regional bloc backtracks on economic sanctions

28th February 2024

Leaders say the decision to lift restrictions has been made for humanitarian reasons as they urge Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso not to leave the community

The decision by leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to lift economic sanctions on Niger's military regime is an embarrassing admission of...

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Vol 64 No 20 |

NIGER
FRANCE

Macron loses showdown with the Niamey junta

26th September 2023

Europe's security plans in the Sahel as US remains coy about future of $200 million drone bases

Two weeks after proclaiming full support for democracy in Niger and its ousted elected President Mohamed Bazoum, France's President Emmanuel Macron announced the immediate recall of his...

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Vol 64 No 19 |

NIGER

Macron digs in amid diplomatic 'hostage' claims

20th September 2023

The French president says his ambassador and diplomatic staff in Niamey, are effectively hostages and living off military rations as the junta blocks food deliveries to the embassy

The diplomatic standoff between France and Niger's military junta shows no sign of abating as President Emmanuel Macron continues to dig in.

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Vol 64 No 18 |

NIGER
FRANCE

Macron steps up the rhetoric against the Niamey junta

30th August 2023

Restoring ousted President Mohamed Bazoum to power has become a personal crusade for the French leader

President Emmanuel Macron has refused to bow to demands from the military junta in Niger that France's ambassador leave the country as he set out France's diplomatic priorities...

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