6,026,652 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
protesters rally across Niger to protest a budget awarding legislators benefits and expenses. |
6,026,658 |
14.1242 |
1.2711 |
Niger |
|
Local bandits or rebels abduct a number of tourists and UN officials and trade them to Al-Qaeda. The UN official is held captive for four months. |
6,026,666 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
protesters demonstrate against effort to extend the president's term. |
6,026,672 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Protests are organized against Israeli military action in Gaza. |
6,026,678 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Several thousand people organized by three unspecified human rights groups protest to demand that members of parliament repay large salary bonuses to the national treasury. |
6,026,684 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
An opposition party organizes a protest against the president's attempt to amend the consitution to allow him to run for as many terms in office as he chooses. |
6,026,690 |
13.3 |
3.3 |
Niger |
|
protesters riot against a planned referendum allowing the president to run for a third term. |
6,026,695 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Tens of thousands of people organized by a front consisting of political parties, unions, and rights groups demonstrate against the president's plans for a third term. |
6,026,701 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
Thousands of workers strike to protest against efforts by the president to change the constitution so that he can run for a third term. |
6,026,706 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
The FDD stages a general strike to protest the president's plan to run for a third term. |
6,026,711 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
The FDD organizes a protest against the president's plan to run for a third term. |
6,026,716 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
An association of independent newspaper editors stages a one week strike against a presidential decree allowing the government to sanction private newspapers without warning. |
6,026,722 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
Trade unions stage a general strike to protest the president's plan to run for a third term. |
6,026,728 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Public sector union stages a strike to demand pay raises. |
6,026,734 |
14.4667 |
5.25 |
Niger |
|
Protesters opposed to an ongoing referendum clash with police. The police use tear gas. |
6,026,737 |
14.9 |
5.2666702 |
Niger |
|
Protesters opposed to an ongoing referendum clash with police. The police use tear gas. |
6,026,740 |
13.3 |
3.3 |
Niger |
|
Protesters opposed to an ongoing referendum clash with police. The police use tear gas. |
6,026,745 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Police teargas a crowd of political figures and activists who had to come to attend the trial of a prominent journalist and opposition leader. |
6,026,750 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Police use tear gas on protesters demonstrating against the new consitutution allowing the president to serve a third term. Groups of activists then spread out through the city, burning tires and setting up roadblocks. |
6,026,755 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
A coalition of seven public and private sector unions strike to demand pay increases and a cut in the income tax. |
6,026,761 |
15.0017 |
2.4691801 |
Niger |
|
Gunmen target six Muslims as they say morning prayers. |
6,026,767 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
About 1000 former MPs and their supporters march to demand the reinstatment of parliament. The police fire tear gas into the crowd, which responds by throwing rocks. |
6,026,776 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Thousands protest in the capital against an election in which the president is standing for a third term. |
6,026,781 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Thousands of people take to the streets to demand that the president step down. |
6,026,786 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets to call for the president to step down. |
6,026,794 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Thousands of people march to support the president and his efforts to amend the constitution for a third term. They also chant for Niger's sovereignty and condemn the EU and ECOWAS, which have imposed sanctions. |
6,026,802 |
17.4216 |
9.5793304 |
Niger |
|
Trade unions strike to demand a pay increase, a tax cut, and protest against the president seeking a third term. |
6,026,807 |
14.3735 |
10.4928 |
Niger |
|
Unknown gunmen kill 3 Saudi tourists. |
6,026,813 |
15.7577 |
4.0045199 |
Niger |
|
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb militants attack soldiers and civilians near the border. |
6,026,819 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Soldiers stage a coup, ousting the president. |
6,026,825 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Citizens march to express support for the military junta that staged a coup. |
6,026,830 |
15.7577 |
4.0045199 |
Niger |
|
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb militants attack soldiers in a border military post. |
6,026,835 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Former communications minister protests his house arrest under the military junta. |
6,026,841 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Students protest the non-application of an agreement over education supplies. |
6,026,846 |
18.441299 |
7.2307 |
Niger |
|
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb kidnaps seven foreign workers. |
6,026,853 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Kidnappers abduct two French tourists from a bar. The hostages are later killed during a gun battle when French military forces intervene. |
6,026,859 |
21.0326 |
11.9312 |
Niger |
|
The army clashes with AQIM. |
6,026,865 |
13.8053 |
8.9883299 |
Niger |
|
Clashes occur between protesters and police outside a courthouse where an opposition politician is on trial for preparing protest demonstrations. |
6,026,871 |
13.4304 |
2.8736 |
Niger |
|
Farmers and herders fought south of the capital after a court decision awarded a disputed plot of land to one group. |
6,026,877 |
13.8053 |
8.9883299 |
Niger |
|
Muslims and Christians clashed |
6,026,883 |
14.5106 |
6.7649999 |
Niger |
|
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped several Nigerien and Chadian aid workers at gunpoint, heading north for the desert region of Agadez. |
6,026,889 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Hundreds gathered in Niamey to protest high petrol prices. |
6,026,895 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Students demonstrated demanding more revenue for Niger from the French mining operations |
6,026,902 |
16.58 |
7.5900002 |
Niger |
|
Islamist Militants bombed a French Uranium Mine and Government Army Base |
6,026,909 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Gunmen attacked a prison in Niamey |
6,026,915 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Gunmen attacked a police training facility |
6,026,921 |
16.9216 |
9.0793304 |
Niger |
|
Pro government protesters demonstrated in support of the government in its upcoming negotiations with Areva |
6,026,927 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Pro government protesters demonstrated in support of the government in its upcoming negotiations with Areva |
6,026,934 |
13.5127 |
2.11252 |
Niger |
|
Hundreds of protesters march in the capital against French nuclear company Areva and lack of transparency with uranium mining contracts. |
6,026,941 |
13.3167 |
12.6167 |
Niger |
|
Niger military forces arrest and kill a number of militants in a raid on the town of Diffa. |