Drug and firearms law in Niger: statutes on record and in force

Niger, in Africa, is party to 3 of the four instruments tracked here but not to the Firearms Protocol. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Ordonnance No. 99-42 Du 23 Septembre 1999 Relative A La of 1999. The record is set out in the order the obligations arrive: treaty first, statute second, enforcement last.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Niger picked out — Fig. — Niger in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Niger is bound by 3 of the four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1992 and the most recent from 2008. The exception is the Firearms Protocol, and that exception has consequences: there is no treaty obligation to mark or trace weapons, so a firearm recovered at a crime scene may have no route back to its point of diversion — the single most common reason a trafficking chain cannot be reconstructed.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	10 Nov 1992	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	30 Sep 2004	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	11 Aug 2008	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	not a party	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Niger: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Each instrument below was located on an official register and is named exactly as that register names it, in the language of enactment.

Ordonnance No. 99-42 Du 23 Septembre 1999 Relative A La — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

2 bodies are named in the record for Niger, each confirmed on Niger's own government domain. Naming the body matters because the treaty obligations above bind the state, while the powers to act on them sit with particular institutions under national law.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Gendarmerie nationale	criminal investigation	gendarmerie-nationale.defense.gouv.ne
Police nationale	criminal investigation	police-nationale.interieur.gouv.ne

Ratification sequence

The order matters as much as the count. Niger came to these instruments over 16 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1992 and ending with the UNCAC in 2008. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the 1988 Convention at 4 years, the longest the UNCAC at 5.

Niger became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1992, 4 years after it was adopted — faster than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

The intervals below are where the obligations were partial rather than complete. For the 12 years between 1992 and 2004, Niger was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC or the UNCAC. For the 4 years between 2004 and 2008, Niger was bound by the 1988 Convention and the UNTOC but not yet by the UNCAC. Conduct inside such a window is judged against the instruments then in force, not against the set as it stands today.

On coverage, Niger is one of 22 jurisdiction s here party to 3 of the four, against 81 party to all four. The Africa cohort runs to 53 records, 6 of them currently listed for increased monitoring.

What is not in force

One of the four instruments does not bind Niger, and the gap has specific consequences rather than symbolic ones.

Firearms Protocol — adopted 2001, and Niger is not a party. In practice, there is no treaty obligation to mark or trace weapons, so a firearm recovered at a crime scene may have no route back to its point of diversion — the single most common reason a trafficking chain cannot be reconstructed.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Niger is recorded as Not listed . The lists are revised three times a year, so this record moves on that cadence rather than continuously. The current statement and what it changed are tracked on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Niger

Which drug-control conventions has Niger ratified?

3 of the four instruments tracked here — the 1988 Convention (10 Nov 1992), the UNTOC (30 Sep 2004), the UNCAC (11 Aug 2008). It is not a party to the Firearms Protocol.

Is Niger on the FATF grey list?

No. Niger appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Niger?

Ordonnance No. 99-42 Du 23 Septembre 1999 Relative A La, confirmed against the UNODC legal library.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Niger that is the UNODC legal library. Following the link reaches the document itself; nothing here paraphrases an instrument it has not cited.

What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?

Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Niger, 1 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.

What does it mean that Niger is not a party to the Firearms Protocol?

In practice, there is no treaty obligation to mark or trace weapons, so a firearm recovered at a crime scene may have no route back to its point of diversion — the single most common reason a trafficking chain cannot be reconstructed.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
Ordonnance No. 99-42 Du 23 Septembre 1999 Relative A La: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.