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The cause of democracy in Africa could have done without this latest affront. Barely six months after giving the French president an undertaking that he would leave power at the end of his second term, Niger’s president,...
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...
Niger's opposition coalition has rejected direct talks with the government unless President Mamadou Tandja reverts to constitutional order. The group met in Abuja with former Nigerian military ruler Abdulsalami Abubakar, who is...
By ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times DAKAR, Senegal -- It is not a good time to be French in Francophone Africa, except if you are a high official from Paris privately visiting a strongman's palace. Nicolas Sarkozy, now...
Urging Liberians and her government officials to go back to the soil and grow their own food-rice, the nation's staple-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has cut the first panicles of rice in her backyard farm in Monrovia.
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...
Liberia's President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has received a delegation sent by President Mamadou Tandja of Niger on a special mission. During closed door discussions Tuesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the head of the...
Nov 09, 2009 (Voice of America News/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- In Nigeria, former President General Abdulsalami Abubakar is scheduled to hold discussions with Niger's embattled President Mamadou Tandja's administration Monday...
By TODD PITMAN Associated Press Writer KOURE, Niger (AP) -- The animals in Niger are known as Giraffa camelopardalis peralta, the most endangered subspecies in Africa. Ten years ago, an estimated 140,000 giraffes inhabited...
By Abdoulaye Massalatchi NIAMEY, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The European Union announced on Friday it was freezing all development aid to Niger in protest at what it called a 'grave violation' of democracy by its ex-army colonel...
