Niger

Although the Luxembourg government suspended its bilateral programmes with Niger following the 26 July 2023 coup d’état, in 2024 Luxembourg Development Cooperation continued to support multilateral, humanitarian and civil society programmes, under increasingly complex conditions. Multilaterally, aid to the WFP’ to support school canteens and to the UNFPA to support reproductive health and rights continued as planned.

On the humanitarian front, Luxembourg contributed a total of €3.7 million in 2024 to projects by international, multilateral and non-governmental humanitarian operators. Additional support was provided to the WFP to ensure the continued operation of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) in Diffa, a city in the south-east of Niger. Through the ETC, local communities benefit from secure access to digital tools, improving their access to information. In addition, a multiannual water and habitat programme run by the ICRC in the Diffa region and supported by Luxembourg Development Cooperation also continued, while adapting to the realities of a post-coup environment.

In 2024, seven Luxembourg development NGOs worked in Niger in the sectors of agriculture, administrative management policy, training of health personnel, sanitation, basic nutrition, health education, multisectoral assistance for basic social services, financial intermediaries in the formal and informal sectors, education, school facilities and vocational training. Despite an increasingly challenging operational environment and tighter controls on their activities by the Nigerien authorities, these NGOs continued to implement their projects in 2024.