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[RFI] Journalist Moussa Kaka has been missing since 31 August, when he left the offices of radio and television station Saraounia in the capital, Niamey, to return home. His family has not seen him since and the Nigerien authorities have offered no explanation. Alioune Tine, a Senegalese human rights activist, believes they are implicated in his disappearance.

[RFI] Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are stepping up their joint media push with Tafouk TV, a new television channel aimed at challenging Western coverage and promoting the three military-led Sahel states' own account of events.

[CAF] Niger began their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations PAMOJA 2027 qualifying campaign with a 2-1 victory over Lesotho after surviving a late fightback.

[Agenzia Fides] Niamey -- Niger's military junta is seeking to relaunch the country's uranium mining industry with the signing of an agreement with Australian company Atomic Eagle, through which the State of Niger has established the Madaouela Mining Company (MAMICO). The company, 60% owned by Atomic Eagle and 40% by the Nigerien State, plans to revive uranium mining operations in Agadez, in the central-northern part of the country.

[HRW] Junta Refuses Calls to Free Detainees, Protect LGBT People, Reconsider ICC Withdrawal

[HRW] Nairobi -- Latest Crackdown Heightens Rights Concerns Amid Renewed Political Tensions

[African Arguments] A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working to destabilise the Sahel's military governments. It's a tidy story. It bundles sanctions, frozen aid and diplomatic isolation into a single narrative of conspiracy. But look closely at who is actually doing what, and what looks like a strategy of destabilisation turns out to be the side effect of something else entirely -- and

[Daba Finance] The US government has approved up to $414 million in financing for Global Atomic's Dasa uranium project in Niger, marking a return of US investment to the country 2 years after American troops left. The US International Development Finance Corporation approved the debt facility for the Canadian miner's project in the Agadez region.

[MFWA] The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned for the safety of Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka, Director-General of Radio-Télévision Saraounia (RTS) and a former Radio France Internationale (RFI) correspondent, who has been missing since August 31, 2026.

[CPJ] Dakar -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerien authorities to take urgent action to find Moussa Kaka, CEO of the Radio Télévision Saraounia (RTS) group, who disappeared on August 31, days after authorities foiled an attempted coup.

[Premium Times] France has denied this allegation, describing it as "pure fiction."

[MFWA] The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of Ibro Chaibou, newsroom manager of Saraounia TV, on August 28, 2026, after nearly ten months in detention.

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