A group of 67 migrants, all foreign nationals, was located and rescued on July 5, 40 km from Séguédine. They too have been abandoned by their smugglers without provisions for food and water.
One of them died and the others...
Since February 2015, violence linked to the Boko Haram terrorist group has resulted in numerous casualties and displacement of thousands of people in the Diffa region of south-eastern Niger. More than 240,000 people have fled the violence, according to...
According to security sources reached by sahelien.com, a strong column of the Nigerien and American army fell into an ambush carried by terrorists from Mali.
The attack took place not far from the village of Tongo Tongo, 80 km from...
They are eighty migrants of various nationalities to be saved in extremis of death by the security forces. They were rescued at the Ashougour well.
According to security sources contacted by Sahelien.com, these migrants have suffered terrible tortures from their...
By Omar Hama Saley
On Saturday, January 2, 2021, armed men attacked the villages of Tchiombangou, 22 kilometers from the commune of Mangaïzé, and Zaroumdarey, 38 kilometers from the Malian border.
At least 100 civilians were killed in the attack on...
The family of American humanitarian Jeffery Woodke, kidnapped mid-October 2016 in Abalak in the Tahoua region in Niger, is still without news of him.
His wife Els Woodke addressed the kidnappers in a statement (in English) that reached Sahelien.com on...
A clash between a group of drug traffickers and the army has killed one of the drug traffickers yesterday, Friday, April 28, east of Agadez. A conveyor vehicle was also destroyed.
According to the correspondent of Sahelien.com, the fighting took...
American humanitarian Jeff Woodke was abducted a year ago in Abalak, Tahoua region, by a group of armed men. Jeff Woodke has been working in Niger for 30 years. As director of the NGO JEMED, he was responsible for...
A Nigerien army patrol opened fire on a vehicle carrying migrants who left Agadez for Libya via Dirkou, Sahelien.com learned, yesterday from a local source. One migrant was killed and three others injured.
According to the same source, the driver...
The provisional record of the floods recorded following torrential rains which struck these days resulted in 23 deaths. This is what the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in Niamey on Wednesday, July 19.
The UN agency, quoting the...