There have been several successful genocide preventions: Kosovo, East Timor, Macedonia, Sierra Leone, Liberia Congo; Ethiopia; Central African Republic; Somalia; Syria; Iraq; Nigeria; Cameroon; Myanmar; Yemen; North ASEAN in East Timor); • Peacekeeping by a national or regional force (France in Côte d’Ivoire; Nigeria and ECOWAS in Sierra Leone and Liberia); • Popular opposition to ethnic violence (Macedonia, • Resistance by “sovereign” nations against “peacekeepers” (Darfur, Sudan, South Sudan, Myanmar, Nigeria

people died, according to Olusegun Obasanjo, a negotiator for the African Union and former president of Nigeria

nation of 11.5 million, a former French colony hemmed in between tiny Togo and Africa’s powerhouse, Nigeria ballot A poor country that is heavily reliant on cotton exports and informal trade with neighbouring Nigeria

NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu contributed reporting from Lagos, Nigeria. © 2023 npr

NIAMEY, Niger — A hundred civilians were killed in attacks by suspected militants in the West African nation of Niger on Saturday, according to government officials. The attack, which came just a week after Niger’s presidential election, is one of the country’s deadliest In December 2019 and January 2020, Nigerien security forces suffered huge losses in the same region, which is also where four American Special Forces soldiers were killed alongside five of their Nigerien

They include Algeria-based al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) and three Malian armed groups – Ansar Dine, primary base is Mali, KAS revealed in a report that the group has Algerian roots via its members of the Algeria-based In October this year, it recorded its first attack on the Benin-Nigeria border, where one Nigerian policeman Military leaders subsequently seizing power from civilian governments in Burkina Faso (2022) and in Niger Russian officials are, to a lesser extent, also present in Burkina Faso and Niger, which have formed

A Nigerian market trader, who was the target of a raid by Operation Dudula members in Johannesburg earlier As they shot he says they swore at him, saying: "You must go to Nigeria… We are Dudula, we are South

They come from neighboring countries like Zimbabwe and Mozambique but also Nigeria, Malawi, Sudan, and

the killing of female Olympic athletes , and also in other African nations, including South Africa , Nigeria

They are blocking recognition that genocide is being committed against Christians in Nigeria," Stanton

Refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, have long been run by the Polisario movement, which seeks an independent Hannah Armstrong An indigenous Sahrawi woman walks at a refugee camp of Boudjdour in Tindouf, southern Algeria REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra Set deep in the desert outside Tindouf, Algeria, the Sahrawi refugee camps are , Nigeria and South Africa. can travel [Sahrawi refugees have broad access to training and education programs in Spain, Cuba and Algeria

Emboldened by their success in the landlocked nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, insurgents affiliated Nations’ top counterterrorism official, has warned that “a vast territory stretching from northern Nigeria