The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has identified Africa’s poorest countries in 2025 by GDP per capita (PPP), highlighting ...

A UN report in 2023 ranked Niger among the world's poorest countries. Its development is hindered by numerous factors, including its landlocked location, desert landscape, low literacy rates ...

Niger, officially the Republic is Niger ... of girls (ages 15+) struggle to read and write Thanks to supporters like you, one of the world’s poorest countries has managed to make significant progress ...

The World Bank’s strategy in Niger will be outlined in its new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for the period 2025–2030, currently under preparation and scheduled to be presented to the World Bank ...

Africa’s sixth-biggest country, Niger, has taken a bold step to distance itself from its troubled past by adopting a new official language. For over 60 years, France controlled the country as ...

Algeria is rounding up migrants and dumping them across the border with Niger, according to a regional migrant rights group.

Tchiani was also promoted to the country’s highest military rank ... who are regularly ranked as among the world's poorest people. In 2023, Niger's former president Mohamed Bazoum who was ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

The country's return to democratic ... who are regularly ranked as among the world's poorest people. General Abdourahamane Tiani is popular in Niger, and his demands that former colonial power ...

Niger’s junta, which last week announced a five-year transition to constitutional rule, has promised to restore security in the country, whose vast desert north is crossed by migrants and ...