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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...
Source: Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) Full_Report (pdf* format - 184.8 Kbytes) Production deficits will drive increased food insecurity in Niger in 2010 After a late start and early dry spells, Niger's 2009...
About 2.6 million people could face a food crisis in Niger this year as a result of insufficient rain, warned the Niger Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ANDDH) in a statement on Wednesday. Five of the eight regions...
Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) About 1,200 conflict-affected women and girls in northern Niger are benefiting from an economic recovery assistance programme that will also promote cooperation among...
The instructions were clear for aid workers with the NGO CARE Niger who were responsible for distributing to hundreds of Niger villagers more than US$80,000 in cash transfers: Withdraw small bills from the bank. Verify the...
Please demand the release of these activists. A sample letter, addresses, and statements by Nigerien and international rights groups are below. Further links to background material follows sample letter and statements.
MAGARIA, 13 August 2009 (IRIN) - Yaou Sadi, a farmer in south-eastern Niger, can remember almost exactly how much millet and sorghum he has cultivated, going back for years. Not knowing how to read or write, his memory is the...
Aug 7 (Reuters) - Niger's President Mamadou Tandja won a controversial referendum to allow him to extend his term in power by three years, according to provisional full results. Tandja went ahead with the poll in defiance of...
Niamey - Clashes erupted as Niger voted on Tuesday in a constitutional referendum to extend President Mamadou Tandja's long rule amid low turnout after an opposition boycott in the uranium-rich African nation. Police fired tear...
Monday, July 06, 2009 Tension in Niger as Tandja 'muscles for third term' By Ben Ukwuoma with Agency reports W ITH plans of a referendum and constitutional amendment thrown to the dustbin by the country's highest court,...
