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National Guard of Niger

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National Guard of Niger

Garde nationale du Niger

NIGER · NIGERIEN ARMED FORCES · INTERIOR FORCES

Part of Nigerien Armed Forces

AES states & allied forcesActiveSubordination reported
Assessed as of
2026-08
Confidence
moderate
  • State affiliation · Niger
  • Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance

State affiliation: Niger.

Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.

In brief

The interior ministry's paramilitary corps — territorial security, the guarding of administrative posts and prisons, and the state's presence in the rural districts and the desert north, on the model of Mali's National Guard.

Scope
Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
Subordination
Subordination reported
Record state
Stub

About this record

Stub — a structured placeholder meeting the public-stub threshold: name, place in the force tree, broad role, and a dated status. A full profile follows source review.

Lineage & institutional history

Formal parent institution: A paramilitary corps of the armed forces that answers to the Ministry of the Interior, Public Safety and Decentralisation rather than to the defence ministry; filed under the armed forces because Nigerien law counts it among them, with the ministerial difference stated here.

Confidence: ModerateMethodologyCorrections

Assessed as of2026-08

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Related structure

1 record that this organisation names, or that name it. Every one is an explicit reference in a published record — nothing here is inferred from subject matter.

Commanded or sponsored by

Actor records that name this organisation.