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Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

Timeline of Events

1932

9.5.1932

The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

1960

8.3.1960

Niger gains independence from France.

1989

9.19.1989

A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.

1996

1.27.1996

In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.