News Niger: Coup-hit Niger was betting on a China-backed oil pipeline as a lifeline. Then the troubles began
A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighoring Benin, both as a result of last year’s coup that toppled the West African nation’s democratic government. The 1,930-kilometer (1,200-mile) pipeline runs from Niger’s Chinese-built Agadem oil field to the port of Cotonou in Benin. It was designed to help the oil-rich but landlocked Niger achieve an almost fivefold increase in oil production through a $400 million deal signed in April with China’s state-run national petroleum company.
News Niger: Niger Finance Minister Rebuffs Pressure To Drop Oil Drive
Chinese and Nigerien workers are building a huge pipeline that will take crude oil from Niger to a port in Benin AFP Niger's finance minister says lack of support from rich countries makes it ...
News Niger: Niger State Unveils Landmark Climate Change Policy and Action Plan
…. Inaugurates Implementation Committee and Sets Up Climate and Development Investment Platform NIGER State Government has demonstrated leadership in the launch of its landmark Climate Change Policy and Action Plan, and inaugurated the Climate Change Policy Implementation Committee (CCPIC). The event also marks the operationalisation of the Niger State Climate Development and Investment Platform (CDIP),
News Niger: Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, August 21, 2026: Nigerian naira extends appreciation to end week on good note
The naira extended its appreciation against the dollar at the official foreign exchange market on Friday, ending the week on a positive note. Central Bank ...
News Niger: Dollar to Naira exchange rate Today, August 18, 2026: Nigerian Naira extends appreciation against US currency
The naira extended its appreciation against the US dollar at the official foreign exchange market on Tuesday. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed ...
News Niger: 2 years after ending US military ties, AES state seeks American investors for its $2.8 billion oil industry
Two years after ending military cooperation with the United States and withdrawing American forces from its territory, Niger is seeking to deepen economic ties with Washington by actively courting US companies, investors and institutions to develop its oil and gas industry. | Business Insider Africa
News Niger: 2 years after taking control from foreign operators, Niger grants major uranium permits to national companies
Niger has granted two major uranium mining permits to national companies, two years after the military-led government began taking key uranium assets back from foreign operators and placing them under state and national control. | Business Insider Africa
News Niger: What Sanctions Have Been Imposed on Niger Since the Coup?
Niger's regional and Western allies have announced a series of sanctions against the country following the July 26 coup. Niger is the world's seventh-biggest producer of uranium, the radioactive metal ...
News Niger: Canada’s Zimar to build US$2 billion complex in Niger, RTN says
Canadian industrial energy company Zimar Inc. will build a refinery and a petrochemical complex in Niger with an estimated output of 100,000 barrels a day, state-run Radio Television du Niger reported ...
News Niger: China removes import tax on Nigerian goods to boost trade
Nigerian agricultural exports like cocoa, ginger, and cashew nuts set for easier access to Chinese markets after China removes import tariffs for African countries, including Nigeria China removes ...
News Niger: Nigerian onion traders resume exports to Ghana
The National Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria has lifted its suspension on onion exports from Nigeria to Ghana with ...
News Niger: Niger’s food economy remains under threat as attacks drive traders, farmers off roads
The roads may have reopened, but for many farmers, traders and drivers in parts of Niger State, the fear that forced them off the roads has not ...
News Niger: Niger’s economic resilience amid insecurity
Africa analyst Chris Edyegu examines Niger’s surprising economic resilience under military rule — and the growing security crisis threatening to undermine it ...
News Niger: Nigerian onion traders suspend exports to Ghana as trade dispute deepens
Nigerian onion traders have suspended exports to Ghana and called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene in the lingering trade dispute between the two countries.
News Niger: Nigerian stocks slide for 7th day, but market pullback looks healthy
Nigeria's stock market's downward trend continued for the 7th day, with market valuation closing around N156 trillion on Wednesday, chopping off trillions ...
News Niger: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger hint at a new west African currency: what it’ll take for it to succeed
On 11 February 2024, the head of Niger’s ruling military junta, General Abdourahmane Tiani, spoke of the possible creation of a common currency with Burkina Faso and Mali. “The currency is a first ...
News Niger: Russia hopes for wider trading, military-technical ties with Niger
Sergey Lavrov said he hoped to discuss with his Niger counterpart "the entire range of bilateral issues and interaction in the international scene" MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russia is interested in ...
News Niger: Bank customers detail implications of two Nigerian banks merger
President of the Bank Customers’ Association of Nigeria, Uju Ogunbunka, has detailed the implications of the merger of two Nigerian financial ...
