Niger Follow

Western imperialism wants to protect itself

Nigerian socialists write on the crisis in west Africa

Western-aligned states plan invasion

A blow to Western influence in west Africa 

The lies peddled by the United States political and military elite about the deaths of soldiers in West Africa are falling apart - as Socialist Worker predicted

The death of US Sergeant La David Johnson in Niger has exposed the callousness of Donald Trump towards those he orders into battle.

The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War.

At least 22 people, including several Islamist militants, escaped from prison in Niger’s capital Niamey last weekend. 

The Niger Delta in Nigeria is a battleground.

Gordon Brown has caused controversy by saying that the British government will help Nigeria in West Africa to "tackle lawlessness" in the oil producing Niger Delta region.

Before the recent famine in Niger there was a long period when there were increasingly strong appeals for aid, but nothing happened. We have now reached that time in Malawi — and people have already begun to die.

Famine has gripped all regions of Niger. There are nearly four million people on the edge of starvation across the country.

The current food crisis in Niger is the clearest indictment of the "deal for Africa" agreed by the G8 last month. The deal continues to push the very neo-liberal reforms that are responsible for the unfolding disaster.

A paper in Science magazine in November 2003 showed that rainfall in the Niger region is driven by temperatures in the nearby south Atlantic and Indian oceans.