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Niamey - US military instructors in Niger will train African forces participating in a UN-backed offensive against al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in neighbouring Mali, senior military officers said on Thursday. The United States and several European nations have backed a French-led military intervention which since January 11 has driven militant insurgents out of the towns of northern Mali. Pockets of Islamist
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Bilma — The Bilma community has mined the salt pans in the massive Ténéré desert region in northern Niger for centuries. But the threat of the ever-encroaching desert has become a real concern as locals here struggle to cope with a decline in salt prices. "If we don't protect this site, salt mining will disappear under the sand," Abdoulaye Soumana,
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Niamey - The United Nations on Sunday said 800 000 people in Niger face food insecurity and that some 84 000 are in immediate need of assistance as the humanitarian crisis worsens in the impoverished landlocked African nation. Struck by droughts and shortages of crops, the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned in a bulletin
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Niamey — Niger is seeking to end its chronic food shortages through an ambitious agricultural transformation plan - but the plan will have to meet the demands of a fast-growing population living in a mostly desert country that also faces threats to its security. When he came to power in 2011, President Issoufou Mahamadou said: "As evidenced in the last
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Niamey - More than 600 people working at a Chinese-operated uranium mine in northern Niger on Thursday began an "indefinite" strike action to protest their working conditions, a union official said. Union spokesperson Alassane Idrissa told AFP that after having staged an initial 72-hour cautionary strike, the action on Thursday rolled into an "indefinite" protest to demand "better life and
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President Barack Obama said on Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two US defence officials the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance. Obama announced the deployment in a letter to Congress, saying that the forces "will provide support for intelligence collection and will also
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Niamey — Around 800 Nigerien families have been relocated from areas along the River Niger as water levels during annual flooding are expected to rise above normal and last until February. The river is predicted to rise 540-565cm, which while not as high as recorded during the August 2012 flooding when it rose to 618cm, is above the 530cm alert
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Niamey - Libya on Wednesday reiterated its call for the extradition of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi from Niger, which has granted him asylum since September 2011 on "humanitarian" grounds. "The Libyan party has noted the threat posed by the presence in Niger of members of the former Libyan regime," said a government statement issued after a visit
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Niamey - More than 1 000 Nigerians have fled to neighbouring Niger after six people were killed in an attack on their village blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram, the United Nations said on Thursday. The 1 042 refugees crossed the northern border into the Niger region of Diffa after the 30 November attack, and have been taken in by
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Renewed flooding of the Niger river threatens Niger’s capital Niamey and parts of the west of the country, local and regional authorities warned Thursday. Previous floods in August and September claimed almost 70 lives across the impoverished west African country and made tens of thousands homeless. “We will be inundated” as of December 5, Niamey governor Aichatou Kane Boulama told
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Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou said his country would hand Saadi Kadhafi over to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Libya Herald reported on Sunday (November 25th). On September 29th, 2011, Interpol issued a Red Notice against the 38-year-old son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi "for allegedly misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation when he headed the Libyan Football Federation".
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Five African aid workers who were abducted in Niger in mid-October have been freed alive, while a sixth has died after being shot by the Al-Qaeda-linked kidnappers, the workers and their employers said Saturday. Five Niger nationals "were freed today and are currently in Niger," while their colleague Aime Soulembaye from Chad has "died from his wounds," Niger's Befen and
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Niamey - Gunmen who kidnapped five African aid workers and a driver in Niger at the weekend had planned to abduct an Italian national, a local official told AFP on Tuesday. "All the witness accounts concur: the kidnappers - there were 11 of them - headed straight to the house where the Italian should have spent the night on Sunday.
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Gunmen have abducted five aid workers and a driver in Niger, a country which borders troubled Mali and Nigeria and where Al-Qaeda's regional branch has carried out kidnappings in the past, an official said Monday. The six were nabbed late Sunday in Dakoro, a village in southeastern Niger, halfway between the borders with Mali and Nigeria. "Five aid workers, including
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Dakar — Niger has nearly halved the death rate of children below five years old since 1998, a significant drop highlighting the benefits of free universal health care for children and pregnant women as well as increased donor funding for health, The Lancet said in a study released on 20 September. The mortality rate reduced from 226 deaths per 1,000
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Niamey - The international aid group Oxfam says half a million people have been displaced in Niger as the country reels from the worst flooding in 80 years. The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that more than 80 people were killed in the floods. The landlocked West African country of Niger has been pummelled by
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At least 31 people have been killed and nearly 100,000 more left homeless by severe flooding that has affected Niger since mid-July, the UN's humanitarian affairs office said Tuesday. "Floods are affecting all regions of the country. We have a provisional death toll of at least 31 and we are nearing 100,000 homeless across the country," said Modibo Traore, head
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The Police in Damaturu have confirmed the attack by armed gunmen on a satellite prison in Damaturu where 40 inmates were set free. Yobe state Commissioner of Police Patrick Egbuniwe told reporters in Damaturu on Sunday: "Yes there was a jail break in the early hours of this morning (Sunday 24/06/2012) which was assisted by some armed gunmen suspected to
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Zinder - In a shady corner of a remote, sun-baked village square in Niger, aid worker Boubacar Halirou wraps his measuring tape around the skinny arms of a hungry toddler and identifies another victim of severe malnutrition. Halirou, who works for the local aid group Befen, is crisscrossing the region looking for emaciated youngsters as the impoverished West African desert
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In a shady corner of a remote, sun-baked village square in Niger, aid worker Boubacar Halirou wraps his measuring tape around the skinny arms of a hungry toddler and identifies another victim of severe malnutrition. Halirou, who works for the local aid group Befen, is crisscrossing the region looking for emaciated youngsters as the impoverished west African desert nation faces
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Tibiri - Spade in hand and barefoot, Hanatou digs holes in the ground intended to catch rainwater. In her village of Tibiri, in southwest Niger, people are trying to break the annual cycle of food shortages. Like dozens of other villagers in the blazing heat and dusty wind, the young woman works the stony soil to dig holes shaped like
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Spade in hand and barefoot, Hanatou digs holes in the ground intended to catch rainwater. In her village of Tibiri, in southwest Niger, people are trying to break the annual cycle of food shortages. Like dozens of other villagers in the blazing heat and dusty wind, the young woman works the stony soil to dig holes shaped like half-moons, three
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Large swathes of farmland are threatened by locusts in Niger even as the drought-prone African nation is grappling with a severe food crisis, a pest-control official said Wednesday. "Unless swarms are destroyed very early, locusts will reproduce and reach the cropland," Yahaya Garba, director of the CNLA agency in charge of pest-control, said in the latest bulletin of the UN
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Lagos - Nigerian aviation authorities have suspended Dana Air's licence after a flight operated by the commercial passenger carrier crashed in Lagos, killing at least 159 people, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. "We have suspended their operational licence in the aftermath of the crash. "We have to look at their entire practice... They won't fly again until their re-certification is
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Geneva - UN officials say they expect 18 million people in West Africa will go hungry this year, including three million young children whose lives or health will be at risk. W David Gressly, the UN's regional humanitarian co-ordinator for nine countries in the arid Sahel region of Africa, says during 2012 the lives of at least 1 million children
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