Adama Zourkaleini Maiga is soft-spoken, but her eyes suggest steely determination.<\/p>\n
The single mother-of-two lives in a quiet, middle-class part of Niger’s capital Niamey, but is originally from Tillab\u00e9ry, one of the regions worst-hit by violence.<\/p>\n
“My mother’s cousin was chief of a village called T\u00e9ra,” she tells me over lunch. “He was assassinated just seven months ago.<\/p>\n
“The terrorists were looking for him and when they found out he’d rented a car to flee, they caught up with him and killed him. They slit his throat. It was a real shock for our whole family.”<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n "Why is Macron saying he doesn't recognise our authorities, when he's accepted coups in other countries like in Gabon and Chad?" The doubt raised by an Iman in Niger echoes the ill feeling of many there towards France, tells the BBC's @MayeniJones<\/a>. https:\/\/t.co\/N2e9oWkth4<\/a><\/p>\n — BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) September 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n