Il Niger (AFI: /ˈniʤer/) è il principale fiume dell'Africa occidentale, con una lunghezza complessiva di circa 4.160 km. Nasce nei monti Loma al confine tra Guinea e Sierra Leone e con un corso a forma di mezzaluna attraversa il Mali, il Niger, costeggia il Benin, attraversa la Nigeria e sfocia infine nel Golfo di Guinea, con un amplissimo delta chiamato delta del Niger od Oil Rivers.

The Niger-class frigates were 32-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy.They were designed in 1757 by Sir Thomas Slade, and were an improvement on his 1756 design for the 32-gun Southampton-class frigates.. Slade's design was approved in September 1757, on which date four ships were approved to be built to these plans - three by contract and …

The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and US soldiers outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returning to base after a stop in the village. During the ambush, four Nigeriens, four US soldiers, and at least 21 ISGS militants were …