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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Moussa Aksar |Boureima Balima
17 March 2025 - 08:56 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Niger's junta has ordered three Chinese officials working in the oil sector to leave the country, according to sources, in the latest move by regional military governments to assert greater control over resources. File photo.
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2 months ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Boureima Balima |Moussa Aksar
Niamey — A commission in military junta-led Niger has recommended a minimum five-year transition to democratic rule after discussions with national stakeholders, officials said on state TV on Thursday. “The duration of the transition is set at 60 months, which may change depending on the security situation and other factors,” Abdoulaye Seydou, one of the commission’s vice-presidents, said.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Boureima Balima |Moussa Aksar
26 January 2024 - 12:04 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. It has one major uranium mining operation in the north operated by France's state-owned Orano. Those operations have continued despite a military coup in July last year. Niger's self-appointed military government has temporarily suspended the granting of new mining licences and ordered an audit of the sector, the mines ministry said.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Moussa Aksar |Boureima Balima
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Niger'S ousted president Mohamed Bazoum. Picture: BERND VON JUTRCZENKA/REUTERS Niamey — Niger’s military tribunal granted the son of ousted president Mohamed Bazoum, provisional release from house arrest in the capital Niamey on Monday, it said in a statement.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
levenementniger.com | Moussa Aksar
La presse nigérienne vient d’être honorée par le Directeur de publication du journal nigérien Air Info qui a remporté le premier prix, catégorie presse écrite, du grand Prix Africain du Journalisme d’Investigation Norbert Zongo (PAJI- NZ)Le grand prix de la presse écrite une médaille d’or – a été remporté par le directeur de publication de Aïr Info, M.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
timeslive.co.za | Abdel-Kader Mazou |Moussa Aksar
France's ambassador to Niger arrived in Paris on Wednesday, around a month after the military junta ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat would be pulled out and French troops withdrawn. Relations between Niger and France, its former colonial ruler which maintained a military presence in the country to help fight Islamist insurgents, have broken down since army officers seized power in Niamey in July.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
msn.com | Abdel-Kader Mazou |Moussa Aksar
Royal weddings that defined the course of European historyQueen Victoria, renowned for her lengthy reign of 64 years, dedicated a significant portion of her rule to cultivating alliances with influential European states. This endeavor involved marrying her numerous children and grandchildren into other royal families across the continent.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Moussa Aksar |Nellie Peyton |Estelle Shirbon
NIAMEY, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Niger’s military leaders have reopened the country’s airspace to all commercial flights after closing it on Aug. 6 after they seized power in a coup, a transport ministry spokesperson said on Monday. The closure had forced Air France (AIRF.PA) and other European carriers to suspend some flights and take longer routes across the African continent. Landlocked Niger is more than twice the size of France and many flight paths across Africa would normally pass above it.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
timeslive.co.za | Boureima Balima |Moussa Aksar |Elizabeth Pineau |Felix Onuah
Hassoumi Massoudou, Foreign Minister of Niger addresses members of the media during the EU Foreign Ministers informal meeting on August 31, 2023 in Toledo, Spain. Niger's ruling junta has ordered police to expel France's ambassador, a move marking a further downturn in relations, and one that authorities in Paris said the army officers who seized power in Niamey last month had no authority to make.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Boureima Balima |Moussa Aksar
(Adds reports of other envoys' expulsion and denials in paragraphs 6-8)By Boureima Balima and Moussa AksarNIAMEY, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Niger's junta, which seized power in a coup on July 26, said on Friday it had ordered French ambassador Sylvain Itte to leave the country within 48 hours, as relations between the West African country and its former colonial ruler deteriorated further.
