Tag: Niger
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Niger oil exports under threat, as Patriotic Liberation Front warns of more pipeline attacks
Recent months have seen a series of attacks by armed rebels on the Nigerien pipeline designed to carry oil from Niger to Benin for international export. This massive pipeline was built with the help of a Chinese company, but now faces significant threats, just as Niger’s crude oil exports are crucial to the country’s growth…
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Niger: More than 600 billion CFA francs to revolutionize agriculture
The $1 billion program to modernize the agricultural and livestock sectors was officially launched on July 29 in the presence of Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine. The project aims to✔️ ensure food security,✔️ ensure resilience to climate risks,✔️ increase agricultural productivity. Zeine stressed that the plan, the first of its kind, “is a challenge…
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One year of CNSP leadership in Niger: “Many things have changed for the better”
“Today, Niger is a very attractive country and we’re seeing a gradual return of all the technical and financial partners,” Ibrahima Namaiwa, an independent Nigerien consultant, argued in an interview with Sputnik Africa. Among those changing their minds about Niger are the World Bank, the IMF and the UN. “They understand that the country is…
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Niger and Chad reportedly relaunch the Niger-Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and renew the gasoil supply contract
A Chadian delegation led by the Minister of Oil, Mines and Geology, Ndolenodji Alixe Naimbaye, has been on a working visit to Niger since Wednesday, media reported. This visit aims to relaunch the Niger-Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and renew the gasoil supply contract in Chad. The pipeline relaunch allows crude oil to be exported from Niger…
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Prisoners escape from Niger jail that holds jihadists
Authorities in Niger have declared a curfew in the volatile Tillaberi region after several prisoners escaped from a heavily fortified jail known to hold jihadists. The incident occurred on Thursday at Koutoukale prison located about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north-west of the capital, Niamey, the interior ministry said. Two other attempted jailbreaks at the facility…
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Inmates escape Niger prison holding militants
Niger’s interior ministry said it had ordered search units to be on alert after inmates escaped on Thursday from the high-security Koutoukale prison whose inmates include Islamist militants. The ministry statement did not say how many prisoners had escaped Koutoukale, which lies 50 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Niamey, or how they had…
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In Niger, the terrorist group Patriotic Liberation Front (FPL) released a statement in which it criticized the summit of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger
In Niger, the terrorist group Patriotic Liberation Front (FPL) released a statement in which it criticized the summit of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger and did not recognize the formation of a new confederation of these countries. “ [FPL] considers the summit to create the proposed confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States to have…
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West African bloc says it risks disintegration if junta-led states leave
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Sunday the region risked disintegration and worsening insecurity after junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger made clear their intentions to leave the bloc by signing a confederation treaty. The Alliance of Sahel States treaty, signed on Saturday, underscored the three countries’ determination to turn their…
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Who will benefit from booming demand for uranium?
A scramble for uranium has developed after the Ukraine conflict and short-sighted Western sanctions on Russia exposed Europe’s dependency on Russian oil and gas, The Economist has argued. About 10% of the world’s electricity is generated from uranium in nuclear reactors. But the problem is that Kazakhstan, that boasts a close mutually-beneficial relationship with Russia,…
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Germany to close down air transport base in Niger
The Bundeswehr (Armed Forces of Germany) will relinquish an air transport base in Niger, which must be closed by August 31, according to local news agency report, citing the German Ministry of Defense. Military personnel will be redeployed back to Germany. “The draft agreement passed to us by Niger cannot serve as a basis for…
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