Niger In Headlines – allAfrica News

• Nigeriens Seek More Government Action On Climate Change
  [Afrobarometer] Large majorities say their region has seen more intense droughts and floods during the past decade.
• Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a UN Security Council Briefing on West Africa and the Sahel
  [U.S. Mission to the UN] New York -- AS DELIVERED
• Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Reaffirms ECOWAS Withdrawal
  [allAfrica] The leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger reaffirmed that their decision to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is irreversible, reports Russian news agency TASS.
• Niger's New Government 'Is a Blessing for Us Farmers'
  [People's Dispatch] From the small peasants to farmers with relatively large land-holding, Niger's farming community explains to Peoples Dispatch why they support the popular anti-France military government.
• Military Junta Suspends BBC for Three Months
  [IFJ] Niger's military junta has suspended the BBC on 10 December for three months with immediate effect. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns this high-handed assault on media freedom and the deliberate attempt by the military junta to deny its citizens access to information.
• Prominent Human Rights Defender Detained: Moussa Tchangari
  [AI London] On 3 December 2024, Moussa Tchangari, a human rights defender and secretary general of the civil society organization Citizens' Alternative Spaces, was arrested in Niamey, Niger's capital. He was at his home when at least three gunmen in plain clothes, who claimed to be policemen, arrested him.
• Niger Suspends BBC, Announces a Complaint Against RFI
  [CPJ] Dakar -- Nigerien authorities have suspended the U.K. government-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for three months and announced the Nigerien government would bring a complaint of "incitement to genocide and inter-community massacre" against the French government-owned Radio France Internationale (RFI).
• Military Govt Bans BBC for 3 Months
  [allAfrica] The military government of Niger suspended the BBC for three months, reports the international broadcaster. Niger's Minister of Communication Raliou Sidi Mohamed announced the decision, accusing the BBC of "spreading fake news to destabilise social peace and demoralise troops fighting jihadists".
• Prominent Civil Society Activist Arbitrarily Arrested
  [HRW] Paris -- Niger's military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, who is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of the […]
• Prominent Civil Society Activist Arbitrarily Arrested
  [AI London] Niger's military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, as he is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of the […]