Niger

The same military-rule report was reviewed for a third time in seven days without a third score cut.

The same Human Rights Watch findings were already scored five days earlier this month.

Niger extended pretrial detention to four years the week a rights defender sought release.

Acute food insecurity risk elevated; January 2026 data outside 14-day window; freshness ruling applied.

FAO Sahel projection excluded by freshness rule; no fresh in-window Niger-specific conduct evidence.

548,000 internally displaced within the 24.3M Sahel humanitarian crisis; Critical profile confirmed.