No further information available except for the continuation of the UN and French support to reintegrate ex-combatants into society.
2005: UNDP/BCPR, France, Libya, Niger and the US provided financial support of $1.7 million to support the reintegration program for 2005 and 2006. In 2005, the government gave economic assistance to reintegrate the Tuareg rebel combatants into socio-economic life with $300 grants to each combatant in the form of micro-loans for projects in animal husbandry, the craft industry and vegetable gardening.
No further information available except for the continuation of the UN and French support to reintegrate ex-combatants into society.
No further information available except for the continuation of the UN and French support to reintegrate ex-combatants into society.
Niger received US $695,000, from the UNV’s Special Voluntary Fund to train and support
660 former guerrillas in agricultural micro-projects so they could be self-reliant.
In a separate report, it was reported that the France provided US $130,000 to Niger as part of its ongoing support for the reintegration into civilian life of former fighters who participated in an armed rebellion in the southeastern region of Diffa between 1994 and 1998.
No report of donor support to the peace process.
France, which was the major donor providing resources to implement the peace process suspended cooperation.
No report of donor support to the peace process.
No report of donor support to the peace process.
No report of donor support to the peace process. After the military coup in 1996, Niger’s main aid donors, including the former colonial power, France, and the United States, suspended badly needed aid after the coup.
Niger’s economy is on the verge of collapse. Therefore, Niger makes an agreement with the World Bank and IMF to implement structural reform programs, which was designed to downsize the state’s involvement in the economic issues and promote privatization. For this project, Niger received a loan of 102 million dollars under the bank’s Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF). This loan, however, cannot be coded as donor support to the peace process. The roundtable of donors as agreed in the peace agreement did not take place.
