Niger is a more remote country with a smaller population.
Nigeria is an oil-rich country and a member of Opec that China and Western countries want to make nice with for oil, despite that they have a large muslim population that has been attacking Christians, and resulting political instability.
My favorite minority are the Uyghurs (pronounced <wee-gurs>). They sound like a bunch of ebonics-talking white guys, but they're an Islamic minority in China, in the region closest to Afghanistan, that periodically wage terrorism against the Chinese government. Probably because the Chinese treat them just as badly as they treat the Tibetans.
Also probably because they're muslim, and it's their natural Koranic impulse to wage jihad on any culture that exists outside of islam.
