A West African organisation is working with local churches and rural communities in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to support ...

Today, Niger is one of the world’s least developed countries. Its largely subsistence farming-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts, leading to severe food and water shortages.

Young men from Niger and elsewhere wait in a migrant “ghetto” in Agadez for a caravan to Libya. With low life expectancy, limited educational opportunities, and a high poverty rate ...

Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has described the private sector as a critical player in overcoming hardship in society.

This alarming statistic places Niger among the states with the most significant educational challenges in the country. The contributing factors to this crisis are multifaceted. Poverty ...

And the social and economic impact of the coronavirus could wipe out five years of development progress in all the Sahelian countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad). Nevertheless, over ...

Nomadic Peoples, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, Risk and Uncertainty in Pastoral Societies (1997), pp. 90-107 (18 pages) ...