Editing Niger Armed Forces (section)

=== National Guard ===
{{Main|National Guard of Niger}}
Formerly known as the National Forces of Intervention and Security, the National Guard of Niger is responsible for security in rural areas where the national police is absent. It is overseen by the superior commander of the National Guard who reports to the Ministry of Interior. This body is responsible for: border and territorial surveillance of the country, public safety, maintaining and restoring of order, protecting public buildings and institutions, people and their property, the execution of the administrative police in rural and pastoral areas, management and monitoring of prisons, humanitarian actions in the case of national disaster or crisis and protection of the environment. It is also responsible for providing security to administrative authorities and the diplomatic and consular representations of Niger abroad.<ref name="unicef2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.ibcr.org/editor/assets/NIGER%20etat_int_epr3.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-06-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714213622/http://www.ibcr.org/editor/assets/NIGER%20etat_int_epr3.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-14 }} Etats de lieux de la formation des forces de defense et de securité sur le droit de l’enfant au Niger</ref>