Niger Republic’s Foreign minister, Hassoumi Massoudou, has said that the country would repatriate the 130,000 displaced Nigerians from Diffa to Borno.
Massoudou gave the indication recently in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
The minister also noted that his country had, last June, returned a total of 6,000 people to their homes after six years of displacement.
He added that the country’s government was convinced that terrorism and organised crime were the consequences of poverty, inequality, etc.
“It is not only military actions that will allow us to definitively defeat terrorism, but also our ability to implement development programmes and meet the essential needs of our population,” he noted.
In addition, Massoudou listed the challenges in Niger and the West African region to include droughts, flooding, locust infestations, and the annual loss of thousands of hectares of arable land to degradation.
He said, “Niger hopes that COP26 in Glasgow will serve as a framework to reaffirm political will to battle the effects of climate change. It is our conviction that fragility linked to climate change is an aggravating factor in conflicts and humanitarian crises.”
Massoudou further stated that Niger understood this correlation clearly since the country currently finds itself surrounded by “hotbeds of instability.”
Recall that in June, President Muhammadu Buhari justified his regime’s decision to spend $1.9 billion on a rail project to Maradi, in the Niger Republic, insisting that he had family members there.
Buhari stated that his regime’s decision to build rail lines from Kano to the neighbouring country would allow his Nigerien relatives to have access to Nigeria easily.
“I have cousins, family members, etc., in the Niger Republic. I shouldn’t just cut them off,” Buhari said.
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