Sources: Reuters
The ruling Nigerien military junta orders the ambassadors of France, Germany, Nigeria, and the United States to leave the country. France rejects the ultimatum, claiming they do not recognize its authority, while the US claims it has received no request to withdraw its personnel from Niger. 2023-08-25
The "Peoples Gazette", a Nigerian online newspaper, claims that it has been raided by the National Intelligence Agency. 2022-01-10
British, American and German men are among a group of international volunteers who travelled to Afrin to fight against Turkish-led forces in north-west Syria. 2018-01-24
Fighting in various remote villages in the Borno State of Nigeria kill at least one civilian and six Boko Haram militants. According to the Nigerian Army, they've rescued more than 5,000 hostages from the militants. 2016-06-26
The president of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, marks the 26th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by attending an anti-Islam rally in Prague with the "Bloc against Islam" group which supports the president. The rally is also attended by observers from the German protest movement, PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) and Tommy Robinson, a prominent British anti-Islam activist. Zeman tells the crowd of several thousand that they aren't extremists for advocating closing the Republic’s borders to Muslim migrants. 2015-11-17
28 people are killed in a series of explosions targeting bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. 2013-07-30
At least 11 people are killed and about 30 wounded in twin car bombs that hits a Protestant church in a major military establishment in Jaji, Kaduna State, north central Nigeria. 2012-11-25
The German Bundestag votes overwhelmingly in support for a Greek bailout. 2012-02-27
Two German men held in Abia State, Nigeria are released six days after being seized on a swim. 2010-04-24
Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State. 2010-04-18