The NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday it was "concerned" by the disappearance, since August 31 in Niamey, of Moussa Kaka, director of a private television, and asked the authorities to open an investigation.

Published on: 03/09/2026 - 09:28

A disappearance considered worrying. The NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday September 2 that it was "concerned" by the fate of journalist Moussa Kaka, whose relatives have not heard from him for two days, and asked the Nigerien authorities to open an investigation.

Niger has been led since 2023 by a junta regularly accused by NGOs of attacks on press freedom.

This disappearance comes a few days after a mutiny which shook the capital Niamey for almost 24 hours and which the regime countered with the decisive help of Russia.

"Moussa Kaka left his office in Niamey, the country's capital, on August 31 around 7 p.m., to return to his home. He never arrived there," says RSF, which specifies that his relatives have not been able to contact him since.

Moussa Kaka is the director of Radio Télévision Saraounia (RTS), a private audiovisual media outlet, and was for many years the correspondent for Radio France Internationale (RFI), a media outlet suspended by the junta which has led a policy openly hostile to France since its arrival in power in 2023.

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“Political and security tensions”

"The disappearance of Moussa Kaka, a renowned journalist, is particularly worrying, as Niger is going through a new period of strong political and security tensions (...) RSF is monitoring the situation carefully and calls on the Nigerien authorities to immediately open an investigation in order to find him," said Sadibou Marong, director of the NGO's Sub-Saharan Africa office.

Moussa Kaka was arrested in November 2025 with several other journalists for “complicity in disseminating a document likely to disturb public order” but was released on bail.

On Friday, the last journalist who was still in detention in this case was in turn released.

According to the Aïr Info media, the former Minister of Defense of the fallen regime, Kalla Moutari, was also arrested on Tuesday, without the reasons being specified.

Calm has returned since Sunday in Niamey, where the authorities accuse various foreign countries - including France - of being at the origin of the unrest, without substantiating these accusations.

Thousands of people gathered in the capital on Wednesday to show their "support" for the head of the military regime, General Abdourahamane Tiani, who has not appeared in public since this weekend, at the call of civil society organizations.

With AFP

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