The streets of the Nigerien capital, Niamey looked calm and peaceful on Tuesday as posters and banners of candidates vying for the country s top job awash major streets.
Niger is set for a presidential election on December 27. Voters in Niamey say there s a need to tackle the prevailing insecurity in the country. The main problem is that there is a lot of insecurity in the country. I used to live 30 kilometres away but I can t go there by motorbike anymore. So you can t say you re safe , Omar Halidou, an Electronics repairman said.
Fighters with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have increasingly mounted attacks across West Africa’s Sahel region in recent years.