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Niger rsquo;s relations with its neighbour Benin have been strained since the July 2023 coup in Niger, followed by the border closure .

Niamey, Niger, August 19, 2023: Thousands of young people queue to register to volunteer to defend their country as part of a volunteer initiative. General

Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has said America and France may trigger a crisis between Nigeria and the Republic of Niger. This, he said the European countries may do through the use of forces to attack Nigeria and make it look like Niger Republic is responsible and also attack…

The Shi’ite leader stressed, “I daresay, I am not only warning that the West could cause a rift between ‘Niger’ and ‘Nigeria’; they could also cause internal conflicts in each of the two. They could trigger a ‘tribal’ conflict within Niger, capitalising on Bazoum’s ethnicity, and pitting them against other ethnic groups, just like they did in Sudan, between the Dinka and the Nuer ethnicities.

Sub-Saharan Africa shows largest overlaps between monetary and non-monetary poverty Poverty is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. When poor people are asked in participatory studies what makes them feel poor, they indicate a wide range of deprivations: not having enough to eat, having inadequate housing material, being sick, having limited or no formal education, having no work, and living in unsafe neighborhoods. Multidimensional poverty measures, such as the Global MPI produced by UNDP a...