Niger's main workers' union and a collective of rights groups have called for the country not to renew Veolia Water's contract to oversee the production, sale and distribution of water in the country due to a row over price hikes, Reuters (...)
Niger has secured 55 billion CFA francs ($120 million) in financing from the World Bank for water, sanitation and anti-AIDS projects, Reuters quoted the government as saying on Friday.
The deal could boost the efforts of new president Mahamadou (...)
Akhir 12, 1432 / March 17, 2011, SPA -- Niger presidential challenger Seyni Oumarou conceded defeat in a poll run-off late on Wednesday, removing the last major hurdle to a smooth transition to civilian rule in the uranium-producing West African (...)
Voters in Niger were called to the polls
Monday in presidential elections, in a step to return the country to
civilian rule.
Ten candidates are contesting the election, including a woman for the first time in the country's history.
Run-off (...)
Niger is racing against the clock to print voting slips for Monday's presidential election intended to steer the uranium-producer back to civilian rule, Reuters reported.
A delay in the poll will raise doubts over the poor West African state's (...)
A Niger's Security Source said last night that Two Westerners were kidnapped yesterday in Niamey.
The Source said the two Westerners, who could be French Nationals, were kidnapped from a restaurant Friday evening, adding that the armed men took (...)
Niger's security forces fought a gun battle with gunmen holding two westerners hostage, but the kidnappers escaped, according to a security source and state radio on Saturday.
According to Reuters, "the kidnappers are in one vehicle and they are (...)
Niger's military government has started an unprecedented drive to distribute free food to one million of the nearly 10 million of its population facing hunger due to failed rains last year, it announced on Saturday, according to Reuters.
The United (...)
At least five soldiers were killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen close to Niger's border with Mali, Reuters quoted a security source in Niger as saying today.
The raid close to Oualam, around 180 km (110 miles) north of Niger's capital (...)
Gunfire has broken out in the
Nigerien capital Niamey in an apparent coup attempt, dpa quoted reports as saying today.
President Mamadou Tandja last year rode roughshod over parliament
and the constitutional court to extend his rule and allow (...)
Niger's President of Mamadou Tandja, has received the visiting delegation of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) headed by Ambassador Mahdy Fathallah, Director General for Political Affairs, at his office in Niamey.
The delegation, (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Niger Ibrahim bin Ali Abdulhaq has said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has provided Niger with great assistance amounting to nearly SR 600 million over the last thirty years contributing to the development of vital sectors (...)
In line with the directives by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Saudi relief plane arrived in Niamey, Niger, carrying humanitarian aid.
The plane, laden with more than 65 tons of food supplies and electric (...)
Saudi Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, Ibrahim bin Ali Abdulhaq, held here today a dinner party in honor of the visiting Saudi relief delegation, overseeing the humanitarian aid ordered by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin (...)
President Mamadou Tandja"s ruling MNSD party has won 21 of the 25 seats announced so far after this week"s parliamentary election in Niger, preliminary results showed on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Tuesday"s poll was largely boycotted by (...)
A key Tuareg rebel leader in
Niger said on Saturday said his group would reject a peace deal
brokered by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi between the fighters
and the governments of Niger and Mali, Reuters reported.
Rhissa Ag Boula, the head of the (...)
The Executive Director of the OIC Bureau for Development and Humanitarian Assistance in Niger has been officially installed and assumed his functions on July 23rd, 2009 in Niamey, according to a press release of the Organization of Islamic (...)
Niger's President issued a decree dissolving the country's constitutional court which earlier
rejected his call to change the constitution so as to allow
him to run for a third term, The Associated Press reported.
The decree signed by President (...)
Niger is extending a state of alert
in its rebellion-plagued northern desert, according to AP.
A decree published in state-run papers Thursday renews the
state of alert in the Agadez region for three months from
Sunday.
The alert boosts the (...)
Police in Niger have arrested Hama Amadou, a
former prime minister of the West African nation, on corruption
charges, reports said Thursday, according to dpa.
Niger's parliament earlier in the week lifted Amadou's
parliamentary immunity so that (...)
