niger

Niger or my Niger (/niːˈʒɛər/ or /ˈnaɪdʒər/ (listen);^[13][14] French: [niʒɛʁ]), officially the Republic of the Niger,^[11][12] is a landlocked country in West Africa named after the Niger River. 尼日共和國（法語：République du Niger） 通稱尼日

EU
- refugee problem

• https://www.ft.com/content/643f6218-547a-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc16e Abdullah Kante has boarded three different boats near Tripoli bound for Europe in the past year. Every vessel was intercepted by EU-trained Libyan coastguards who, he said, robbed him before handing him over to a detention centre, where he was beaten with iron bars. Each time, his captors forced him to call his family in Senegal as they beat him, asking for $800 to let him go, he said. Deciding enough was enough, Mr Kante turned south and headed for Niger, the safest neighbouring country that is receptive to migrants. “I thought I would die,” he said, speaking at the International Organisation for Migration’s transit centre in the city of Agadez. The story of Europe and west Africa’s migration crisis is increasingly the tale of those who turn back as EU policies aimed at stemming the flow of people across the Mediterranean take root. Since 2014, the EU has channelled €338m to migration-related projects in Libya, funded training for border forces in Niger and set up a joint task force with the African Union and UN that it claims has helped free thousands from Libya’s brutal detention centres. In 2015 it backed a Niger law that outlawed irregular migration and the local businesses that facilitated it. But fears are rising that as the EU measures bite, people are being pushed into evermore perilous situations, and that the situation in Libya could deteriorate to such an extent that thousands of the 700,000-1m migrants and refugees estimated to be in the country will head to Niger, which is ill-equipped to receive them.  

china

- leaders visit

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201905/29/WS5ced7970a3104842260be540.html China and Niger should enhance Belt and Road cooperation and implement major projects in areas such as infrastructure, energy and agriculture, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday. Xi made the remark while meeting with Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Issoufou is paying a state visit to China from Sunday to Thursday. Witnessed by the two leaders, China and Niger signed a number of cooperation documents after their talks.