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Niger
Niger is a $21.6B economy (2025), growing 7.0% in real terms, with consumer inflation at -4.5%. 20 of 22 tracked series are published for this country.
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Economy
GDP · 2025
$21.6B
+9.7% vs 2024
#26 of 52Population · 2025
27.9M
+3.3% vs 2024
#18 of 54Data
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Source: World Bank Open Data · World Development Indicators & International Debt Statistics · rank among African countries with a recent print
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Niger headlines
- 'Absolutely Nothing' Justifies Arrest of Niger Journalist, Rights Expert Tells RFI
[RFI] Journalist Moussa Kaka has been missing since 31 August, when he left the offices of radio and television station Saraounia in the capital, Niamey, to return home. His family has not seen him since and the Nigerien authorities have offered no explanation. Alioune Tine, a Se
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- All of Africa Today - September 30, 2026
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- Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Launch Tafouk TV Channel to Push Their Own Narrative
[RFI] Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are stepping up their joint media push with Tafouk TV, a new television channel aimed at challenging Western coverage and promoting the three military-led Sahel states' own account of events.
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- Niger Hold Off Lesotho Fightback to Make Winning Start to Afcon 2027 Qualifiers
[CAF] Niger began their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations PAMOJA 2027 qualifying campaign with a 2-1 victory over Lesotho after surviving a late fightback.
- Niger Rejects Key Rights Recommendations At UN Review
[HRW] Junta Refuses Calls to Free Detainees, Protect LGBT People, Reconsider ICC Withdrawal
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- Canadians, Australians and Americans Relaunch Niger's Uranium Industry
[Agenzia Fides] Niamey -- Niger's military junta is seeking to relaunch the country's uranium mining industry with the signing of an agreement with Australian company Atomic Eagle, through which the State of Niger has established the Madaouela Mining Company (MAMICO). The company
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- There's No Conspiracy in the Sahel - - There's a Gap, and Bamako Knows How to Use It
[African Arguments] A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working to destabilise the Sahel's military governments. It's a tidy story. It bundles sa
AllAfrica·Burkina FasoMaliNiger
- Junta Strips 5 More Exiled Critics of Nationality
[HRW] Nairobi -- Latest Crackdown Heightens Rights Concerns Amid Renewed Political Tensions
Capital
World Bank lending to Niger
2 in the pipeline · 19 active · commitments as published by the Bank.
Source: World Bank Projects & Operations
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