One year later, a treaty on the promotion of capital investments was signed, and in 1968 the predecessor organization of today's Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit sets up an office in Niamey.

[2] On November 15, 1999, the German embassy was closed in the face of unrest that erupted after the assassination of President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, and reopened on September 6, 2002.

[3] In 2010, the German government temporarily suspended development aid to the country following the military coup against Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja.

The agenda included security policy, cooperation in the fight against illegal migration and transnational drug trafficking, and the development partnership between the two countries.

From 2013, Germany used a base in Niamey since 2013 as a supply hub for its forces in neighbouring Mali where they were serving as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission MINUSMA.

[8] However, negotiations to extend the agreement of operating its airbase in Niamey fell apart, because the base's personnel would no longer benefit immunity from prosecution.