We use cookies to improve your experience. By your continued use of this site you accept such use.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

  • Multimedia content

  • Images (3)
    • Teenage girls with seed grinding mills, part of the distributions in a UNFPA-supported project to support them in launching a business. © UNFPA Niger
    • More than three quarters of girls in Niger are married while they are still children and the adolescent pregnancy rate is around 14 per cent. © UNFPA Niger
    • Mahamane Mansour Kané Maiguizo is a champion of social well-being in Tessaoua. © UNFPA Niger
  • All (3)
Source: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) |

Empowering adolescent girls in Niger to take control of their lives – and futures

The Tessaoua project works with the Association of Traditional Chiefs of Niger and local women's organizations on training sessions, helping to mobilize local leaders as allies in advocating for girls’ rights

“Every young girl must have an economic activity. It’s humiliating to ask for money: You have to look out for yourself,” said 17-year-old Maimounatou, who lives in Tessaoua, in Niger’s south-central Maradi region. A rural and generally calm area, Tessaoua is frequently hit by intense flooding. As many in the community…

Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Source: Human Rights Watch (HRW) |

Niger: Rights in Free Fall a Year After Coup

Crackdown on Opposition, Media; No Oversight of Military Spending

The military authorities in Niger have cracked down on the opposition, media, and peaceful dissent since taking power in a coup one year ago, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said today. They have arbitrarily detained former President Mohamed Bazoum, and at least 30…

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Source: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) |

Empowering women and building climate resilience with Habbanayé in Niger

In Niger, UN Capital Development Fund is unlocking the potential of Habbanayé to build community level resilience, empower women and reinforce community ties in a region that has seen a recent uptick in conflict

Habbanayé is an ancestral practice among pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Niger, which consists of lending reproductive adult livestock to family members, friends or acquaintances in vulnerable situations. The family receiving the loaned female assumes responsibility for them until their offspring are weaned. The loaned animals are then returned to…

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA)
Source: Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) |

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) Establishes Vegetable and Moringa Production Garden to Benefit 100 Women in Niger

Communities residing especially in rural areas of Zinder, one of the regions most affected by acute drought cases in Niger, make their living from agriculture and animal husbandry

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) established a vegetable and moringa garden in the Yaloufoiram village of Niger, where 100 women will engage in the production. Communities residing especially in rural areas of Zinder, one of the regions most affected by acute drought cases in Niger, make their living from…

Merck Foundation

  • Multimedia content

  • Images (3)
    • Merck Foundation CEO announce Nigerien winner of Merck Foundation 'More Than a Mother' Media Awards 2023
    • Merck Foundation 'More Than a Mother' & 'Diabetes & Hypertension' Awards Ceremony 2023 (1)
    • Merck Foundation 'More Than a Mother' & 'Diabetes & Hypertension' Awards Ceremony 2023 (2)
  • All (3)
Source: Merck Foundation |

Merck Foundation Chief Executive Officer (CEO) announce Nigerien winner of their Media Awards to break Infertility Stigma, Support Girl Education and Diabetes- Hypertension awareness

Merck Foundation is additionally rewarding the winners by providing them with one year access of an online educational training program called ‘MasterClass’

Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany announced the Winners of Merck Foundation Africa Media Recognition “More Than a Mother” Awards 2023 and “Diabetes and Hypertension” Awards 2023 from Niger. Winners from the rest of the Africa were also announced, in partnership with African First Ladies, the…

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

  • Multimedia content

  • Images (1)
    • Fight against desertification strengthens community ties and boosts local economy in Niger
  • All (1)
Source: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) |

Fight against desertification strengthens community ties and boosts local economy in Niger

UNCDF, through the LoCAL Facility, provides financial and technical support to the local level, drawing on a global, regional and national network, to channel climate financing to local authorities like Abalak

Climate change, irregular rainfall and lack of water has led to successive crop failures in the rural village of Zorian, which lies some 650 km northeast of Niamey the capital of Niger, in the heart of the arid West African Sahel. With each poor harvest residents say the community loses…

West Africa Think Tank (WATHI)

  • Multimedia content

  • Images (1)
    • Faced with the threat of regional disintegration in West Africa, resignation is not an option (By Dr Olakounlé Gilles Yabi)
  • All (1)
Source: West Africa Think Tank (WATHI) |

Faced with the threat of regional disintegration in West Africa, resignation is not an option (By Dr Olakounlé Gilles Yabi)

We need an ECOWAS that gives young people reasons to dream

By Dr Olakounlé Gilles Yabi, Founder and CEO of the citizen think tank WATHI (www.WATHI.org). In 2014, when I was working to launch the citizen think tank WATHI, I wrote the following in the concept note I proposed to dozens of friends interested in the present and future of West Africa:…

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA)
Source: Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) |

Agricultural Equipment Support from Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) to Nigerien Farmers

A total of 10 hand tractors and 20 manual seed drills and plows were distributed to farmers for use in agricultural processes

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) provided agricultural equipment support to farmers operating in village cooperatives affiliated with the Municipality of Birni N’Gaouré in the Dosso region, one of the areas with the most intensive agricultural production in Niger. As natural factors such as recent droughts and global warming have…

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Source: International Monetary Fund (IMF) |

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Niger Reach Staff-Level Agreement on the Fourth and Fifth Reviews of the Extended Credit Facility and The First Review under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility

The economic outlook is promising over the near and medium term, with growth projected at 10.6 percent this year, driven by oil exports and the lifting of sanctions

IMF Staff and Nigerien Authorities have reached an agreement at the staff level on the fourth and fifth reviews of Niger's economic program under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the first review under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF); The economic outlook is promising over the near and medium term,…

Council of the European Union
Source: Council of the European Union |

The European Union military partnership mission (EUMPM) Niger: Council decides not to extend the mandate of the mission

The mission was established in December 2022 at the request of the former Nigerien authorities to enhance the ability of the Niger Armed Forces to contain the terrorist threat

The Council today decided to not extend the European Union military partnership mission in Niger (EUMPM) beyond 30 June 2024, in view of the grave current political situation in the country. The mission was established in December 2022 at the request of the former Nigerien authorities to enhance the ability of…