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The U.S. said the drones at the base will target the several affiliated al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups in the Sahel countries including the Lake Chad region which is battling with the spread of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgency. Local Nigerian officials and civil society have expressed concern about the ...

The $110 million project is the largest troop labor construction project in US history, according to Air Force officials. It will cost $15 million annually to operate. Citing security reasons, no official will say how many drones will be housed at the base or whether more US personnel will be brought to the region. Already the US ...

In Numbers. 961 mt of food assistance distributed. USD 601,903 cash-based transfers made. USD 36 m six months (April-September 2018) net funding requirements, representing 52% of total* *funding requirements include all three projects. 438 802 m people assisted In MARCH 2018. Operational ...

Rome, April 24 (IANS/AKI) With support from the UN, Italy has flown 15 tonnes of medical supplies and drugs to Niger to treat the country's main ... The airlift followed a request from Niger's authorities and the medical kits - which contain items that are hard to find in the impoverished country - will help the ...

Nigerien forces and their American advisers are preparing other major operations to clear out militants, military officials say. “It's essential that the American public is aware of, engaged in, and decides whether or not to support American military operations in countries around the world, including Niger,” said ...

ABC News had confirmed through senior Nigerien officials and a western official that Niger was trying to confirm the identity of a man captured several weeks ago along the border region with Mali. Officials said the man in custody bore a resemblance to Cheffou, the head of ISIS in the Greater Sahara.

The United States ambassador to Niger, Eric P. Whitaker, said in an interview on Monday that Nigerien officials had told him and American military officers and law enforcement officials about the capture, and that American officials were waiting to get more information from the Nigerien authorities. “It is still ...

NIGER - A German aid worker was kidnapped by armed men in Niger on Wednesday in a region close to the border with Mali prone to jihadist attacks, an official ... According to local officials, "two armed men in turbans" stormed in and grabbed him, killing his bodyguard and a member of the national guard.

The scheduled entrance test into the Niger State Civil Service Commission has been stalled by the power tussle between the chairman and ... Corroborating her colleague, another official of the commission, Hajia Asmau Usman, insisted that the CBT would not serve the interest of applicants from her zone ...

In my capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), I have just undertaken an official country visit to the Republic of Niger from 19 to 24 March 2018, at the invitation of the Government. The objectives of my visit were to gather first-hand information ...

However, according to the third Defense Department official, a lieutenant colonel in Chad had already approved both the helicopter raid based from Arlit, ... Current and former military officials said they found it highly surprising that the captain who was filling in for the regional commander in Niger — Maj.

DAKAR, Senegal — Security officials in Nigeria failed to act after being alerted that Boko Haram militants were on their way to a town where they eventually ... “The Nigerian authorities must investigate the inexcusable security lapses that allowed this abduction to take place without any tangible attempt to ...

They want to return the equipment to the US authorities "by legal means," said the statement, adding that the fighting took place "on March 11-12." It was issued by a group called GATIA, the acronym in French for the Imghad and Allies Touareg Self-Defence Force), which is pro-government, and the ...

US at war in 7 countries — including Niger; US Army rebuilds Afghan firebases; F-35s to India?; and just a bit more… ... Also in the report: confirmation “that the U.S. is sharing intel with the Saudis in their Yemen bombing campaign, though U.S. military officials continue to deny that they're doing so,” ...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is reviewing the results of a lengthy internal investigation into the October ambush, near the border with Mali, which set off a widespread debate about why American troops are fighting a shadowy war in Niger. A military official said on Wednesday that Mr. Mattis was wrestling ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur Cecilia Jimenez-Damary will undertake her first official visit to Niger from 19 to 24 March 2018 to assess the human rights ... “Since the first attacks in Niger by Boko Haram in 2015, the Diffa region, in the south-eastern part of the country, has been confronted with a ...

U.S. military leaders are considering new guidelines for the use of helmet cameras on the battlefield after Islamic State-linked fighters in Niger ... the team didn't get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Islamic State militant, several U.S. officials familiar with the ...

“A few weeks after my resumption in NDPHC, Mrs. Mba approached me and pleaded with me to prevail on the MD to yield to her advice for the NDPHC to offer finanacial incentives (or bribe) to officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) so they could accelerate the release to NDPHC of the sum of N8.1 ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has been grilling officials of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) over allegations of fraud. TheCable had reported various allegations of impropriety in the award of contracts at the government agency.

(WASHINGTON) — A military investigation into the Niger attack that killed four American service members concludes the team didn't get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Islamic State militant, several U.S. officials familiar with the report said. It doesn't point to ...

The Association of Magistrates and Sharia Court Judges in Niger State have given the state government a 21-day ultimatum to address the problem of poor welfare ... They also want the government to fulfil its promise to provide them with official vehicles “to assist us in the discharge of our official functions.

Officials of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Niger State have apprehend a gang of three, including a female, allegedly involved in two separate robbery incidents involving senior Government House officials in Minna, Niger State. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the gang of three last week, broke into ...

Finance Minister Hassoumi Massoudou defended the proposed budget this week and vowed the government would not be cowed by demonstrations. He told a gathering of regional officials that the new law contains "virtually no measure" affecting the countryside, where 80 percent of Nigeriens live and ...

The U.S. general who led the investigation into the Islamic State-linked ambush last year that killed four soldiers in Niger will testify before the House on ... But the general may still be hampered from sharing details because the timing of the Pentagon's official release of the investigation is uncertain. It is on ...

The cost of an October 2017 battle between U.S. soldiers and ISIS fighters in Niger was high: Four Americans were killed and two were wounded. ... “Currently, Niger is not eligible for Imminent Danger Pay (IDP) meaning that any U.S. service member of official duty in Niger during the month of October 2017 ...

Nearly five months since four U.S. soldiers lost their lives in Niger, the U.S. military is turning its hunt for the perpetrators in the neighboring nation of Mali. ... However, during the mission, the soldiers were ordered to change their route to assist another team with investigating what intelligence officials ...

Washington (CNN) US military and intelligence officials believe that the ISIS fighters that ambushed and killed four US troops in Niger last October fled back across the border into Mali and have remained there since, according to an administration official directly familiar with the latest assessment.

They headed for the Government Girls Science and Technical College, fleeing a little while later. Originally, it was claimed many of the girls had escaped and no-one had been kidnapped. But a week later, authorities have admitted they were taken by the Islamist extremists. So, what exactly is going on?

NIAMEY, Niger — In a bare suite of prefab offices, inside a compound off a dirt road, French bureaucrats are pushing France's borders thousands of miles .... United Nations officials are allowed to enter the government-run camps to look for potential asylum cases — principally Eritreans and Somalis, whose ...

What is not disputed is that a small U.S. special operations team led by a captain came under attack in a remote swath of terrain in western Niger where military officials say they were conducting an advise-and-assist mission. However, a report by The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, said the ...

The New York Times is reporting that a draft military investigation into the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Niger last year calls for the Pentagon to reduce the number of ground missions in West Africa. Military officials with knowledge of the findings told the newspaper the investigation also concludes that ...

The FBI is assisting Niger authorities in the investigation of the deaths of four US servicemen, a law enforcement official tells CNN, a routine step for the ... the October 2017 ambush in Niger by ISIS affiliated fighters that killed four US soldiers has been completed, according to several US defense officials.

The Presidency has sacked two top officials of the Niger State school feeding committee THISDAY can authoritatively report. According to a source, the Niger State government has been told by the Presidency to transfer the scheme to the state Ministry of Women Affairs for “better management and ...