[Via VOA] It probably isn't the first time you are coming across Niger in the news this and last week, owing to the ongoing coup. As of Thursday, August 3, a military junta has taken over power in ...

From the number of Russian flags that have appeared in the streets of Niamey, Niger’s capital, since the coup, it seems likely that Tchiani got in touch with the Wagner Group instead.

The EU has suspended all security cooperation with Niger after the country's army took power in a coup. It comes shortly after the US declared its "unflagging support" for ousted president Mohamed ...

Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum - a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants - was defiant after soldiers announced a coup on Wednesday. But he has been detained, the army chief ...

Niger had plunged into a state of political turmoil since late July when President Bazoum was forcibly removed from power in a coup carried out by the presidential guard. The coup garnered intense ...