Agadez Department

NIGER [Travel Alert]

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_4546.html Travel Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs This information is current as of today, Thu Nov 19 2009...

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Libya repatriates Touareg rebels to Niger

Libya has begun the repatriation of hundreds of Nigerien Touareg rebels. The fighters are a faction of Niger's Touareg rebels who launched an uprising in 2007. They laid down their weapons in Libya, a country that they used as...

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Emergency food assistance to flood-affected populations in Agadez region

On 1 September 2009, torrential rains caused flooding in valleys and low-lying areas in the Department of Agadez in Niger. Urban neighbourhoods in Agadez and Tchirozérine towns and the two rural communes of Dabaga and Tabelot...

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400 ex-Niger rebels sent home

Niamey - Libya has repatriated by air 386 recently amnestied Niger Tuareg rebels who have been living in the north African country, an official source in Niger's northern city of Agadez said. Niger President Mamadou Tandja...

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Niger: UNICEF and local partners fight child trafficking and exploitation

AGADEZ, Niger, 9 November 2009 – It's 6 a.m. at the Agadez bus station, and the members of the town's Child Protection Committee are keeping a close watch on the waiting passengers for the bus heading towards the northern town...

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Tuareg peace deal revives Niger tourism hopes

Source: Reuters NIAMEY, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Niger's tattered tourism industry is hoping a rebel peace deal will be its salvation. Four weeks after Tuareg fighters signed an agreement with the governments of Niger and ...

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Wanted Mauritanian terrorist caught in Niger

Security services in Niger earlier this month arrested a high-profile Mauritanian terror suspect, Journal Tahalil quoted security services as saying on Monday (October 26th). Taghi Ould Youssouf was reportedly apprehended...

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WB to help develop high-speed Internet in Africa (AFP)

AFP - The World Bank said on Tuesday it would invest 215 million dollars (146 million euros) to help develop high-speed Internet infrastructure in central Africa and make the service more accessible to people in the region.

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FACTBOX-Foreign investment in Niger

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Campaigning began late on Sunday for Niger's Oct. 20 parliamentary election, with President Mamadou Tandja once again calling on his country to give him the power to complete large-scale projects. Below are...

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Niger: Floods devastate Agadez region of northern Niger with lingering effects

UNICEF has set up water bladders and taps at one of the sites sheltering the flood-affected population in northern Niger, as well as water distribution systems at other camps. By Sandra Bisin AGADEZ, Niger, 25 September 2009 –...

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