The recent discovery of about 6,000 foreign nationals from our Northern neighbour, the Republic of Niger, as holders of the National Identity Numbers, NINs, of Nigeria, did not come as a surprise. The surprise is that only 6,

Russia's goal, according to Constantin Gouvy of the Clingendael Institute, is to replace Western powers such as France as the primary partner for the Sahel states using disinformation to destabilize the region.

The federal government has disclosed that not less than 400,000 Nigerian refugees currently reside in Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The federal commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees ...

resulting in a deadly war that has spilled over to Nigeria’s northern neighbors Chad, Niger and Cameroon. USAID, for instance, partnered with the U.N. migration agency in Nigeria in its Rapid ...

Idriss Deby repeated the threat after a new clash with Boko Haram fighters in November in which 15 Chad troops were killed.

With a ballooning population, armed insurgents, climate crisis, dwindling natural resources, and huge socio-economic disparity, the Lake Chad region has endured a complex plethora of crises since 2009.

In the Sahel, human rights defenders are being targeted more than ever by the various states, while civic space is deteriorating and public freedoms are under threat. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a partnership of FIDH and OMCT) publishes today a