As well as jihadist groups, the Wagner mercenaries, who are active elsewhere in the region, have been seen as exercising a malign influence in Niger. Some supporters of the coup have been seen ...

After an anti-smuggling law was repealed, much of smuggling was decriminalised – research suggests migrants are safer ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic ... it), a tacit understanding among some Western powers seems to have coalesced: Lose Niger—the one country in its “rough ...