• INCIDENTS
    • Nigeria
      • South West
      • South South
      • South East
      • North Central
      • North East
      • North West
    • West Africa
      • Senegal
      • Benin Republic
      • Burkina Faso
      • Cape Verde
      • Cote d’Ivoire
      • Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger Republic
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
  • NEWS
    • Defending the Civic Space – Blog
    • AML – CFT NEWS
    • Foreign News
    • Local News
    • Videos
  • RESOURCES
    • Policy briefs
    • Restrictive legislations
    • Press statements
    • INFOGRAPHICS
    • Publications
    • Newsletters
  • ACTION GROUP
    • Join
    • Steering Committee
    • Members
    • Group Activities
    • Member Activities
  • SPECIAL CAUSES
    • COVID-19
      • General News
      • Incidents
      • Eyewitness Reports
    • #ENDSARS
      • General News
      • Missing Persons
      • Gallery
      • Trends & Hashtags
  • CSR-HUB
    • Blog
    • Upcoming Events
Menu
  • INCIDENTS
    • Nigeria
      • South West
      • South South
      • South East
      • North Central
      • North East
      • North West
    • West Africa
      • Senegal
      • Benin Republic
      • Burkina Faso
      • Cape Verde
      • Cote d’Ivoire
      • Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger Republic
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
  • NEWS
    • Defending the Civic Space – Blog
    • AML – CFT NEWS
    • Foreign News
    • Local News
    • Videos
  • RESOURCES
    • Policy briefs
    • Restrictive legislations
    • Press statements
    • INFOGRAPHICS
    • Publications
    • Newsletters
  • ACTION GROUP
    • Join
    • Steering Committee
    • Members
    • Group Activities
    • Member Activities
  • SPECIAL CAUSES
    • COVID-19
      • General News
      • Incidents
      • Eyewitness Reports
    • #ENDSARS
      • General News
      • Missing Persons
      • Gallery
      • Trends & Hashtags
  • CSR-HUB
    • Blog
    • Upcoming Events

Niger: March against Barkhane Banned, Opponents Launch a Petition

  • Date of Occurrence
    October 17, 2022
  • Details
  • Comments 0
  • prev
  • next
  • Bookmark
  • Share
  • Report
  • Leave a review
  • prev
  • next
Image
Description

A march planned for Wednesday in Niamey against the presence of soldiers of the Barkhane force in Niger was banned, and its organizers announced that they had decided to launch a petition demanding their departure instead.

The M62 movement, which brings together civil society organizations and describes itself as "peaceful" and committed to "the dignity and sovereignty of the Nigerien people," said in a statement that, "respectful" of the law, it "takes note of the ban" on its march.

He announced that he had decided "to launch an online petition against the presence of Barkhane in Niger," whose text demands that the regime of President Mohamed Bazoum "make it leave our country," as well as "any other evil force whose objective is to destabilize and/or plunder the resources of our country and the Sahel."

Pushed out of Mali, the French Barkhane force - whose last soldier left that country on Monday - will remain present in the Sahel, particularly in Niger, one of France's main regional allies.

In April, Niger's deputies had primarily voted in favor of a text authorizing the deployment of foreign forces on the territory, notably French, to fight jihadists.

At the end of November 2021, a Barkhane military convoy leaving Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire to reach Gao in Mali was initially blocked and pelted by demonstrators in Kaya, Burkina Faso.

It resumed its journey before being interrupted by angry demonstrators in Tera, in western Niger. Three of them were killed in shootings attributed by the Nigerien government to its forces or to French forces.

Investigations have not determined who fired the shots, but Nigerien authorities believe they were probably French.

Both France and Niger announced that they would compensate the victims' families.

Details
  • Date of Occurrence
    2022-10-17
  • Perpetrator
    Niger republic government
  • Source
    https://www.africanews.com/2022/08/17/niger-march-against-barkhane-banned-opponents-launch-a-petition//
Region
  • Niger Republic
Rights & Freedom Violated
  • Freedom of Association & Assembly
  • Political Restrictions
Mode of Attacks
  • Ban, Sanctions and Fines
  • Comments are closed.
  • You May Also Be Interested In

    Court Jails Eighteen Demonstrators

    • Niamey
    Jul30
    • Right to Freedom of Association

    State Prosecutor Demands Three Years Imprisonment For Civil Society Leaders

    • Niger
    Jul17
    • Right to Freedom of Association

    This site is supported by:

    FGHR-150x50
    OSF-150x50
    fh
    ford-foundation-logo-150x50

    Closing Civic Spaces is a publicly-available database on closing spaces for civic engagement and civil society in Nigeria & West Africa. Data  is compiled from public sources.

    • +234-814-500-0067
    • Lagos, Nigeria

    Stay informed

    Get incidents as they happen

    Support our campaign to protect the civil society space

    Donate Now
    Donate to Defend the Civil Society Space

    © 2019 Closing Civic Spaces by Spaces for Change. Spaces for Change is a member of the Global NPO Coalition on FATF.

    Images, texts, & other forms of content are copyright of their respective owners.

    Cart

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • Telegram
    • Pinterest
    • LinkedIn
    • Tumblr
    • VKontakte
    • Mail
    • Copy link