resurgence of HIV/Aids amid loss of access to PrEP drugs as at least 40 people arrested in ‘toxic’ climate Niger File Photo: AP A “witch-hunt” is under way in Niger, where dozens of people have been arrested for homosexuality The changes to the penal code started under Niger’s previous civilian president, Mohamed Bazoum. But in March 2025, Tchiani’s regime promulgated the Charter of the Refoundation to replace Niger’s 2010 There were an estimated 32,000 new infections in Niger in 2023.

they rent out their weapons to kidnappers from Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and even Niger or Nigeria." mobile commandos to the Chadian border to generate revenue from kidnappings, as they already do in Nigeria

found, three-quarters of whom were foreign nationals from countries including Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria

Anglophone activists, including Mancho Bibixy Tse , Tsi Conrad and ten others illegally deported from Nigeria

No country better exemplifies this tragic reality than Nigeria. The most populous and commercially significant country in Africa, Nigeria is the site of what has been He explained that Nigeria's deteriorating security and rapidly escalating violence serve as a warning Boko Haram has killed more civilians in Nigeria than ISIS slaughtered in Iraq and Syria combined. Nigeria may very well implode.

reported that suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked Mussa community in Askira/Uba LGA, killing four Nigerian abducted 276 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria First Lady Michelle Obama and several international figures publicly demanded urgent action from the Nigerian

2 refugee designation to grant access for at-risk religious groups in Afghanistan, and to designate Nigeria Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—as well as five others: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria Regrettably, the State Department removed Nigeria as a CPC though it had been added the previous year These include three that the State Department placed on that list in November 2021: Algeria, Cuba, and

Pius Adeleye in Niamey Tues 31 Dec 2024 A camp for internally displaced people in Ouallam, Niger. The Nigerien junta has been struggling to contain the rising tide of jihadist attacks in the tri-border An image from a video showing the attack by jihadists in Libiri, in Niger’s Tillabéri region, earlier The Nigerien junta and Russian-backed media claimed only 10 men were lost. From left, Mali’s Assimi Goïta, Niger’s Tchiani and Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré.

for genocide has now been reached when it comes to the massacres of Christian farming communities in Nigeria “Nearly every single day, I wake up with text messages from partners in Nigeria, such as this morning Why are there nearly 1 million IDPs from the northeast of Nigeria?” Buwalda asked. “Nigeria is a member of the Rome Statute. So Nigeria has been under investigation now for nearly 10 years.

more than 679,000 Anglophones, with at least 60,000 Anglophones fleeing as refugees to neighboring Nigeria

In December 2021, a legal analysis from UN Special Procedures (OL DZA 12/2021) concluded that Algeria

Abdourahamane Tiani of Niger attends the Alliance of Sahel States second summit on security and development (Nairobi) – Niger’s military junta has entrenched authoritarian rule, dismantled democratic institutions The authorities have also sought to suppress criticism beyond Niger’s borders. Niger’s security forces have responded with abusive counterinsurgency operations. Niger in violation of laws-of-war prohibitions against indiscriminate attacks.