Migration

Information Needs Assessment: Agadez, Niger

4 december 2018 By Lucas Destrijcker

Internews – In August 2018, an Internews team—consisting of one lead researcher, a research consultant, and 15 locally recruited field researchers and enumerators— conducted an Information Needs Assessment (INA) focusing on migrant and displaced populations based in Agadez, Niger. The study was realized over a two-week period in close partnership with the International Rescue Committee […]

Migration

Information Needs Assessment in Gao, Mali

4 december 2018 By Lucas Destrijcker

Internews – Determining the information needs of migrant communities based in Gao, Mali In September 2018, an Internews team—consisting of one lead researcher, two research consultants, and 15 locally recruited field researchers and enumerators—conducted an Information Needs Assessment (INA) focusing on migrant populations based in Gao, Mali. The study was realized over a two-week period, […]

Development

A forgotten community: The little town in Niger keeping the lights on in France

3 oktober 2017 By Lucas Destrijcker

African Arguments – Welcome to Arlit, the impoverished uranium capital of Africa. From Niamey, the capital of the landlocked West African nation of Niger, we call ahead to a desert town in the remote north of the country. “Journalists? On their way here? It’s been a while”, we hear down the phone from our contact. […]

Conflict

Uranium in Niger: het postkoloniale atoom

3 maart 2017 By Lucas Destrijcker

De Correspondent – ‘Een journalist? Dat is al even geleden,’ klinkt het aan de telefoon. ‘We verwelkomen je met open armen, maar alleen onder het voorwendsel dat je op bezoek bent om migranten op weg naar Algerije te interviewen. Als Areva te weten komt dat je je neus in hun zaken steekt, is het verloren […]

Asylum and Migration

Welcome to Agadez, smuggling capital of the Sahara

24 oktober 2016 By Lucas Destrijcker

POLITICO – From the city in central Niger, hundreds of thousands attempt to cross the Sahara and reach Europe. But more die in the desert crossing than do in the Mediterranean. Once, caravans brought gold and salt to this small mud-brick desert town. Today, it has become a major trading post for arms, drugs and, […]

Asylum and Migration

Over de eerste zee van zand

30 september 2016 By Lucas Destrijcker

De Groene Amsterdammer/Knack – De oude karavaanroute naar Agadez in Niger brengt niet langer goud en zout. Hunkerend naar veiligheid en geluk stellen talloze Afrikanen hun leven in de waagschaal met een reis door de woestijn. HET IS HALF DRIE ’S NACHTS in het busstation van Niamey, de hoofdstad van Niger in de westelijke uithoek van […]