Archiv: Nigeria


28.05.2026 - 14:39 [ CNN ]

Trump’s ‘blow ‘em up’ threat to Oman means he’s now attacked or threatened 1 out of every 13 countries

He’s launched strikes in seven countries so far this term — Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen — after also attacking some of those countries in his first term. That doesn’t even count the strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, which have targeted nearly 60 vessels and killed more than 190 people.

He has also threatened or left open the possibility of strikes against seven others this term: Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland (which is part of Denmark), Mexico, Panama and now Oman. He also threatened Mexico and North Korea in his first term.

22.02.2026 - 12:37 [ U,S. Department of Justice ]

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22.02.2026 - 12:19 [ Drop Site News ]

Epstein Flipped Israel’s Gaza-Tested Biometric Scanners Into Nigeria Ports Deal for UAE

(February 16, 2026)

Epstein was keen to profit from armed conflicts on the African continent. While negotiating DP World’s access to Nigeria, he was also helping Zeitlin navigate around U.S. sanctions on Ivan Glasenberg, the Israeli-South African CEO of mining giant Glencore, and Oleg Deripaska, then-chairman of the Russian aluminum titan Rusal. Glencore’s operations had been disrupted by a fraud probe into their dealings with Israeli mining kingpin Dan Gertler in Congo-Kinshasa. “Do you know Oleg Deripaska or Ivan Glasenberg?” Zeitlin asked Epstein. “Easy,” Epstein replied.

The American financier had deep ties to Israeli mining and military outfits in Africa, which he helped support alongside former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak—a close associate with whom Epstein corresponded almost daily. “With civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia, libya, and the desperation of those in power,” Epstein wrote in a 2014 email to Barak, “isn’t this perfect for you.” Barak replied, “You’re right [in] a way. But not simple to transform it into a cash flow.”

08.01.2026 - 18:50 [ Reuters ]

US senators foresee vote on reining Trump in over Greenland

„You will see war powers resolutions introduced on Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Greenland,“ Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democratic senator who has led several resolutions seeking to check U.S. presidents‘ use of military force without congressional approval.

„I just don‘t know who‘s necessarily going to be leading all of them, because I will likely be at least a co-sponsor and probably leading some,“ Kaine told reporters at a news conference ahead of a Senate vote expected on Thursday on whether to halt further military action in Venezuela without lawmakers‘ approval.

01.01.2026 - 12:31 [ Antiwar.com ]

US Bombed Seven Countries in 2025 as Trump Dramatically Expanded Airstrikes

According to a report from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) released earlier this year, Trump launched nearly as many airstrikes in just his first five months in office as President Biden did during his entire four-year term.

If Trump’s claims of a Christmas Eve attack on Venezuela and reports that it was a CIA drone strike are true, the US has bombed seven countries this year, on top of the airstrikes targeting alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

26.12.2025 - 19:49 [ Associated Press ]

What to know about the militants targeted by US airstrikes in northwest Nigeria

(today)

The Nigerian military has said in the past that the group has roots in neighboring Niger and that it became more active in Nigeria’s border communities following a 2023 military coup. That coup resulted in fractured relations between Nigeria and Niger, and affected their multinational military operations along the porous border.

26.12.2025 - 19:45 [ BusinessInsider.com ]

Burkina Faso and the AES vow to neutralize any threats as it detains 11 Nigerian soldiers

(December 9, 2025)

A Nigerian military aircraft, carrying 11 personnel, is detained in Burkina Faso for alleged airspace violation.
Burkina Faso, a member of the Alliance of Sahel States, claims the aircraft‘s presence was an unfriendly act that breached sovereignty.
The Sahel States Alliance has condemned the incident, emphasizing heightened alert for airspace protection.
The detention follows recent Nigerian airstrikes in Benin targeting coup plotters, which adds tension in the region.

26.12.2025 - 19:37 [ Al Jazeera ]

Has Benin’s foiled coup made ECOWAS a West African heavyweight once more?

(December 16, 2025)

Between 2020 and 2025, nine coup attempts toppled five democratic governments and two military ones. The latest successful coup, in Guinea-Bissau, happened on November 28. Bissau-Guineans had voted in the presidential election some days before and were waiting for the results to be announced when the military seized the national television station, detained incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, and announced a new military leader.

ECOWAS, whose high-level delegation was in Bissau to monitor the electoral process when the coup happened, appeared on the back foot, unable to do much more than issue condemnatory statements. Those statements sounded similar to those it issued after the coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Guinea.

26.12.2025 - 19:30 [ AfricaNews.com ]

ECOWAS troops deployed as Benin foils coup attempt

(December 15, 2025)

Military help for the government came from the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS.

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Several West African countries have witnessed coups in recent years, including Benin’s northern neighbours, Niger and Burkina Faso.

26.12.2025 - 19:11 [ DailyTrust ]

PHOTOS: Scenes from Sokoto communities hit by US strikes

Residents of Tangaza and Tambuwal local government areas of Sokoto State have confirmed separate drone attacks on their communities, carried out by the United States military.

Findings by our correspondent indicate that one of the attacks occurred in Jabo District of Tambuwal Local Government Area, a community previously not affected by insecurity.

26.12.2025 - 17:08 [ Reuters ]

Exclusive: US conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump intervention threat

(December 22, 2025)

Karr said the operation was an early sign the U.S. was rebuilding its capacity in the region after Niger ordered U.S. troops to leave a sprawling, newly built air base in the desert last year, and turned instead to Russia for security assistance.
„In recent weeks we‘ve seen a resumption of intelligence and surveillance flights in Nigeria,“ Karr said in an interview.

A former U.S. official said the aircraft is among several assets the Trump administration moved to Ghana in November.

26.12.2025 - 16:57 [ TheAfricaReport.com ]

Nigeria gave US intelligence for strikes on militants

“It’s Nigeria that provided the intelligence,” Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told local television network ChannelsTV, saying he was on the phone with US State Secretary Marco Rubio.

“We spoke twice. We spoke for 19 minutes before the strike and then we spoke again for another five minutes before it went on,” Tuggar said.

26.12.2025 - 16:51 [ Vanguard Nigeria ]

Trump says US launched ‘numerous’ deadly strikes on IS in Nigeria

“May God Bless our Military,” he said, adding provocatively, “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”

US Africa Command said in an X post that it conducted a strike “at the request of Nigerian authorities…killing multiple ISIS terrorists.”

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth took to X to praise his department’s readiness to take action in Nigeria, and said he was “grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation.”

16.11.2025 - 15:48 [ Oil Change International ]

Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel‘s Fuel Suplly

(November 13, 2025)

Table 1: Crude Oil Shipments to Israel –
November 1, 2023 – October 1, 2025

Origin Country
Crude Oil (in tonnes)
Number of Shipments

Turkey (Azeri) 7,146,417 61
Russia (Kazakh) 5,362,251 55
Gabon 2,288,858 21
Nigeria 1,112,229 12
Brazil 584,041 4
Republic of the Congo 391,602 3
Egypt 335,066 8
Democratic Republic of the Congo 326,210 3
Angola 132,142 1
Equatorial Guinea 79,400 1
Russia (Russian) 76,790 1
Ghana 68,364 1

TOTAL 17,903,370 171

16.11.2025 - 15:42 [ Middle East Eye ]

Twenty-five states funnelled oil to Israel during genocide: Report

(November 14, 2025)

Twenty-five countries supplied Israel with crude oil and refined petroleum throughout its two-year genocide in Gaza, a new report has revealed.

An updated report by Oil Change International tracked a total of 323 shipments from 25 countries carrying nearly 21.2 million tonnes of crude oil and refined products to Israel between November 1 2023 and 1 October 2025.

02.11.2025 - 15:38 [ CNN ]

Trump says he’s ordered Pentagon to ‘prepare for possible action’ in Nigeria

In a social media post criticizing what he called the “mass slaughter” of Christians in the country, Trump wrote the United States would “immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” and warned the government there to “move fast.”

In the lengthy message, Trump said the US “may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”

31.08.2023 - 19:08 [ CNBC ]

African leaders work on response to Gabon military coup ousting President Bongo

Central Africa‘s political bloc, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), condemned the coup in a statement, saying it planned an „imminent“ meeting of heads of state to determine how to respond. It did not give a date.

The African Union‘s Peace and Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss the coup, a spokesperson for the African Union Commission chair said.

22.08.2023 - 14:36 [ Vanguard (Nigeria) ]

Niger: We’re more likely to use force — ECOWAS

Fielding questions on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace, and Security, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah, also dismissed insinuations that ECOWAS was acting under the influence of a foreign power.

He explained that the community’s chances of using military force to restore constitutional order in Niger were very likely.

He said: “Right from the 1960s, I have never seen a coup that has not enjoyed continuous support from the people.

22.08.2023 - 14:31 [ CNN ]

ECOWAS sets ‘D-Day’ for possible military intervention in Niger

(Fri August 18, 2023)

Abdel-Fatau Musah, the Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace & Security of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc, said that military forces are “ready to go anytime the order is given” for military intervention in Niger.

“The D-day is also decided, which we are not going to disclose,” Musah told journalists after the two-day meeting of West African defense chiefs in the Ghanaian capital of Accra.

14.08.2023 - 11:12 [ APNews.com ]

Niger’s junta gains the upper hand over the regional bloc threatening military force, analysts say

On Thursday, the bloc ordered the deployment of a “standby” force to restore constitutional rule in Niger, with Nigeria, Benin, Senegal and Ivory Coast saying they would contribute troops.

But it’s unclear when, how or if the troops will deploy. The move could take weeks or months to set into motion, and while the bloc decides what to do the junta is gaining power, some observers say.

14.08.2023 - 10:55 [ Al Jazeera ]

Niger coup leader agrees to hold direct talks with ECOWAS: Nigerian scholar

Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, who led the Nigerian delegation, made the announcement on Sunday, a day after his group held talks with General Abdourahamane Tchiani in the Nigerien capital Niamey.

The meeting took place as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) explores its options to restore civilian rule in Niger, including potential military intervention,

11.08.2023 - 10:32 [ USnews.com ]

Tensions Rise as West African Nations Prepare to Send Troops to Restore Democracy in Niger

It‘s unclear when or where the force will deploy and which countries from the 15-member bloc would contribute to it. Conflict experts say it would likely comprise some 5,000 troops led by Nigeria and could be ready within weeks.

11.08.2023 - 10:22 [ ForeignPolicy.com ]

ECOWAS Orders ‘Standby Force’ to Niger

On Wednesday, Nigeria’s former central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, met with coup leaders in Niamey to begin talks. But the junta appeared unwilling to budge without first receiving major concessions, including easing sanctions on the military regime to allow medicine and food to enter the country as well as forcing Nigeria to restore electricity to Niger.

But catering to junta demands and looking wishy-washy over its threat of military intervention is not a great look for the regional bloc.

10.08.2023 - 12:26 [ France24.com ]

Live: ECOWAS holds emergency summit on Niger as junta announces new govt

Leaders from the West African bloc ECOWAS will meet on Thursday for an emergency summit on the coup in Niger, after the country‘s military chiefs defied an ultimatum to restore the elected president.

09.08.2023 - 23:59 [ Counterfire.org ]

‘A tinderbox waiting to explode’: Niger and neo-colonialism

The coup of the 26th July 2023 in Niger was precipitated by the stated desire of former President Bazoum to remove the head of the presidential guard. Irrespective of the reasons for the coupists seizing power, the coup, to gain legitimacy, has tapped into a festering resentment against the ex-colonial power, France. French control of Niger’s economy through fiscal and monetary means using a regional version of the Franc (CFA Franc), with the collaboration of elements of Niger’s elite, has meant that France has the scope and access to pillage the country’s resources relentlessly.

As Niger has no control over its currency, it is unable to embark upon any form of meaningful development to lift or transform the living standards of the people. The CFA Franc and the fiscal and monetary control that France has over its ex-colonies is a scandal. It represents the rawest form of neo-colonial domination.

09.08.2023 - 17:44 [ Vice.com ]

The West Wants African Leaders to Invade Niger. Will They?

Western allies are pressuring Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to take a tough stance against the new Niger junta. But lawmakers back home have signalled they are against using Nigerian troops.

08.08.2023 - 10:56 [ Euronews.com ]

ECOWAS to meet Thursday after Niger’s junta defies key deadline and shuts airspace

Mali said it and Burkina Faso, both neighbours of Niger run by military juntas, were sending delegations to Niger to show support. Both countries have said they would consider any intervention in Niger as a declaration of war against them.