As the EU sets new policies and makes deals with African nations to deter hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking new lives on the continent, what does it mean for sub-Saharan Africans following dreams northwards and the countries they transit through? From returnees in Sierra Leone and refug...

La région de Diffa est en proie aux attaques de la secte islamiste Boko Haram depuis février 2015. Le journaliste nigérien Seidik Abba, chroniqueur au Monde Afrique, est revenu sur les lieux de son enfance trente ans après les avoir quittés. Dans une série en cinq épisodes, entre enquête et voyage i...

Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is developed in line with the Abidjan Declaration adopted by the 15 ECOWAS me...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a adopted strategies to eradicate statelessness in the sub-region by 2024. During a 3-day ministerial conference that began on Monday in Gambia’s capital Banjul, experts from the bloc’s 15 member states resolved to finalize a plan of acti...

On 12 December 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited Diffa region in Niger. Here, the forcibly displaced population is spread across more than 100 sites in a stretch of arable land along the border with Nigeria. He used the opportunity to highlight the importance of da...

Food security emergencies are likely to increase 2 March 2017, Rome - Global food supply conditions are robust, but access to food has been dramatically reduced in areas suffering civil conflicts, while drought conditions are worsening food security across swathes of East Africa, according to the...

Southeastern Niger is a Kanuri region, the same ethnic group that in Nigeria form the bulk of Boko Haram. Before the insurgency began in 2009, Mohamed Yusuf, the founder of the group, and his successor, Abubaker Shekau, were familiar figures in Diffa. But nobody IRIN spoke to believed that affini...

5 March 2017 – The Security Council – which is in the Lake Chad Basin to draw attention to the humanitarian and development needs of a region grappling with Boko Haram's terror – visited for the first time Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world. Addressing media in Niamey, Ambassador Ma...

A poor, sun-scorched Sahel country, Niger is rapidly becoming a key U.S. and Western counterterrorism ally. The former French colony already hosts French troops, and, as part of its TransSahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, the United States is building a $100 million drone base there to monitor an...

Local authorities, partners and UNHCR staff gathered on the 13th of september to celebrate the construction of the new system that will give the refugee population of the camp of Abala a closer, faster and safer access to water. Financed by the UNHCR, the new system cost 165 000 USD and includes...