In a press release issued on Wednesday August 16, the political opposition gathered under the denomination of the Front for the Restoration of Democracy and Defense of the Republic (FRDDR) came openly after the President of the Republic Issoufou...
It emerges from the Council of Ministers last Thursday that the mandates of municipal and regional elected representatives are extended by six months from August 17.
This measure does not apply to the five municipal councils of Niamey which are...
Several policemen (about ten) were missing for two days between Assamaka and Arlit in northern Niger. They were on their way to make a shift.
According to a security source, after the search operations, eight officers were rescued but three...
A vehicle from Libya carrying nine passengers, all Nigerians, has been lost sight of for several days. It was found, Thursday, July 20, west of Séguédine immobilized by a breakdown.
Seven people lost their lives before the rescue workers arrived....
The Tahoua-Arlit road, called RTA or road of uranium already in a pitiful state, is seriously threatened lately.
The tributaries coming from the Aïr mountains carried away what was left of bitumen in places. So the tributary known as Telwa...
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...
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...
My name is Els Woodke. I am a Dutch citizen and I lived for many years with my husband in Niger.
On October 14 of 2016, my husband Jeff was kidnapped from his home in Abalak, Niger by a group...
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...
In the late morning of Wednesday, a blunder was committed by Nigerien soldiers south of the Toumour commune in the Diffa region.
A military patrol in the area confused a vehicle carrying gardeners going to work to Boko Haram members....