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The African nation of Niger has ousted Afghanistan as the worst place in the world to be a mother, largely due to hunger, according to an annual report out Tuesday by Save the Children. In contrast, Norway is the best according to the group's "Best and Worst Places to Be a Mom" ranking which compares 165 countries in terms of
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One month after arriving at WFP, Executive Director Ertharin Cousin was out in the field in the central African nation of Niger, one of the countries most affected by the drought in the Sahel region. After the first day of her field trip, in which she traveled with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the WFP chief sent back
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Niger officials on Saturday held talks in Tripoli on security issues including Saadi Kadhafi and other members of the former regime who are sheltered in Niger and wanted by Libyan authorities. Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib said that his country takes "no chances" when it comes to the threat posed by remnants of the former regime sheltered in Niger.
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Four Chinese passengers and two French pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed in an oil field in southeastern Niger last week, authorities told AFP on Tuesday. The accicent occurred in the Diffa region on Friday as the helicopter was on its way from oil-rich Agadem to the Fachi oasis, Diffa prefect Inoussa Sauna said. The wreck was found the
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The United States will give $120 million in emergency aid for western Africa's drought-hit Sahel region in hope of preventing severe hunger, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday. Clinton announced the aid after a UN appeal in February for $725 million in urgent assistance for the Sahel, the latest food concern in Africa following a famine believed to have
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Niamey - Niger on Friday denounced the military coup in neighbouring Mali, the first in the stable west African in 21 years, and called for an immediate return to constitutional order. "Niger is following with concern and total disapproval the evolution of the situation in Mali," a statement read out on state radio said, adding that Niamey "condemned all unconstitutional
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Tripoli - Niger issued a passport to a top advisor of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi but later revoked it, a senior Nigerian military official said on Monday. Speaking in the Libyan capital, Colonel Djibou Tahirou said his country had issued a passport to top Gaddafi aide Saleh Bashir who oversaw Libyan investments in Africa. "Niger issued the passport under
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More than six million people in Niger need immediate help as the country faces a persistent food crisis due to drought and a number of other factors, the UN and humanitarian group Oxfam said Monday. "The situation of populations, in particular women and children, is deteriorating quickly," they said in a joint statement. "We call for a rapid response, consistent
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Niamey - Tens of thousands of Malians have crossed the border to Niger to flee fighting between the army and Tuareg rebels, the United Nations said Thursday. "More than 25 000 people have arrived in Niger since the violence began in mid-January in North Mali," said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The refugees are mostly concentrated
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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Top United Nations officials say 10 million people need help amid a food crisis in West Africa's Sahel region. U.N. Development and Humanitarian chiefs Helen Clark and Valerie Amos called Saturday for greater humanitarian response to the crisis that effects eight countries, including Niger. During a visit, they commended Niger's government for its agricultural projects that
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Two senior United Nations officials arrived in Niger today in an effort to draw the world's attention to the worsening food shortages in the country and the wider Sahel region of West Africa where millions of people are in need of assistance due to poor harvests caused by recurring drought. The joint mission by Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs,
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Niger will not extradite Saadi Kadhafi even though the son of the slain Libyan leader violated his asylum conditions with "subversive" comments in a television interview, officials said on Saturday. "Our position remains the same -- we will hand Saadi Kadhafi to a government that has an independent and impartial justice system," government spokesman Marou Amadou told reporters in Niamey.
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The offices of Niger's justice ministry in Niamey were ravaged by a serious fire, which broke out in the early hours of the morning and was officially said to be of "criminal origin." The flames completely destroyed the first floor of the building, including the office of the minister and those of his closest aides, an AFP correspondent saw. Firemen
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Niamey - Arsonists set fire to part of Niger's Justice Ministry on Tuesday, destroying files used in anti-corruption investigations including probes into a number of judges, the government said. The government said the blaze had destroyed paper archives dating back decades as well as information gathered from a hotline that has led to the investigation of around 20 judges in
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More than half of Niger's farming villages face food shortages in the next few months after poor harvests, Agriculture Minister Oua Seydou told parliament Saturday. Residents of 6,981 villages, or 58 percent of the total, could have trouble feeding themselves after a 27 percent fall in grain production over last year. At 3.8 million tonnes, the harvest was also 11
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Millions of people in West Africa can only be saved from a major food crisis next year if aid preparations are scaled up, Oxfam warned Monday. "With early indicators pointing to a likely food crisis in 2012, with people at particularly high risk in Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad, now is the time to invest in preventative measures,"
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International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde will visit Nigeria and Niger on December 18-22 on her first visit to Africa while leading the crisis lender, the IMF said Monday. Lagarde will meet policymakers and representatives of the private sector and civil society to discuss challenges facing African countries, the Fund said. "Africa is a vital part of the IMF's
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Six top police chiefs have been sacked in the wake of clashes between demonstrators and police in which two people were killed in Zinder, Niger's second city, the government announced Saturday. They include the heads of the police, domestic intelligence and security services, according to a cabinet statement read out on state television. The statement gave no reason for the
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Niamey - A teenager and a woman were killed during clashes this week between demonstrators and police in Zinder, Niger's second-largest city in the east, the government announced late Wednesday. The government spokesperson, Justice Minister Marou Amadou, said that "unhappy events in Zinder on December 6 and 7 led to the intervention of the security forces" and the two deaths.
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Niamey - Authorities in Niger have freed Colonel Abdoulaye Badie, a former deputy junta leader, after two months in detention over an anonymous tract criticising military methods, sources close to him said on Friday. "Colonel Badie was released on Wednesday... after exactly two months of detention to the day," one of the sources told AFP. Badie had been arrested on
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A clash between Niger troops and an armed group that included Malian Tuaregs formerly allied to slain Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi left at least 14 dead, security sources said Thursday. The incident took place on Sunday in northern Niger and was first reported on Tuesday, when the west African country's defence ministry did not identify the gunmen and only spoke
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Niamey - Niger's army has clashed with a heavily armed convoy of vehicles that entered its territory from Libya, killing 13 in the convoy and suffering one casualty on its side, military sources in the West African country said on Wednesday. The sources said Nigerien authorities took 13 prisoners after the incident, which took place on Sunday around the remote
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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's army intercepted a convoy of cars traveling south from Libya toward Mali, and a cache of arms was seized in the ensuing clash, the ministry of defense said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if the fighters were part of Moammar Gadhafi's fleeing entourage, but the direction in which the heavily armed convoy was traveling
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Once lush and abundant, the "green belt" surrounding Niger's capital of Niamey, created 50 years ago to try and halt the advance of the Sahara desert, is dying a slow death. A rural exodus has taken its toll on Niger's greenest project, as populations left destitute by low crop yields move to the capital and cut down its trees to
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The Hague - Niger has an obligation to co-operate in bringing to justice Libyan fugitives Saif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, wanted by the International Criminal Court, a court spokesperson said on Wednesday. "There is definitely an obligation on Niger to co-operate as it is a state party to the Rome Statute," the ICC's founding document, said Fadi El Abdallah. But
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