Description: US, Niger discuss US troop withdrawal, Business opportunities in Niger-GIBF, NIGER UPDATE: Additional Military Equipments with more Russian troops arrived Niger #news #reaction, Peace Globe with President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou | Paris Peace Forum 2019
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Niger ( i / ˈ n aɪ dʒ ər / or / n iː ˈ ʒ ɛər / ; French: [niʒɛʁ] ), officially the Republic of Niger , is a landlocked country in Western Africa , named after the Niger River . Niger is bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km 2 , making it the largest country in West Africa, with over 80 percent of its land area covered by the Sahara Desert . The
Niger is a developing country , and is consistently one of the lowest-ranked in the United Nations ' Human Development Index (HDI); it was ranked last at 187th for 2013. Much of the non-desert portions of the country are threatened by periodic drought and desertification . The economy is concentrated around subsistence and some export agriculture clustered in the more fertile south, and the export of raw materials, especially uranium ore . Niger faces serious challenges to development due to its landlocked