Location: Niger

Our youth-led radio show “Génération Sahel” promotes peaceful coexistence across the borders of Niger and Mali.

Cross-border areas between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso face complex security problems and high economic and social vulnerabilities. This shared transhumance area, affected by climate change, runs out of resources, further exacerbating existing tensions within agro-pastoral communities. Populations, therefore, face increasing food and nutrition insecurity amid weakening governance and conflict…

West Africa - September 2020 - Key Highlights (+ Version Française)

The project Terrain d'Entente, was implemented in Mali and Niger from November 2018 to November 2019, with support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This 12-month project, implemented by Search, aimed to strengthen mutual trust and collaboration between communities, local authorities, and security forces in the regions of Gao and…

In Niger, the threat of Boko Haram turned everyone’s lives upside down. Teenagers became fighters. Wives became widows. Innocent people became prisoners. So many futures—upended by years of conflict.

This paper draws on the expertise of African researchers and practitioners to examine the transnational dimensions of farmer-herder relations across the Western Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin. As conflicts between these two communities escalate in the region, it is vital for all stakeholders to coordinate and advance sustainable solutions…

Since 2015, conflict in the Diffa region of Niger has intensified, exacerbated by instability and by Boko Haram’s violent attacks. As the level of violence grows, Diffa risks spiraling into an even deeper crisis.

Located in the tri-border area between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the Liptako-Gourma region is at the crossroads of illegal activities, population displacement, inter-community conflicts, and violence carried out by violent extremist groups. Tensions are aggravated by the lack of basic government services and the proliferation of national and foreign…

Located in the tri-border area between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, the Liptako-Gourma region is at the crossroads of illegal activities, population displacement, inter-community conflict, and the actions carried out by alliances of violent extremist groups. The limited delivery of basic services, the proliferation of national and foreign military contingents…

  At the heart of the wide range of social, economic and security crises facing the Diffa region, in southeast Niger, a major problem with significant destabilizing potential has arisen: the reintegration of repentants and other persons detained as part of the fight against Boko Haram. In December 2016, the…