
GARIN GUIZO, Niger , 10 March 2010 As dawn breaks in this rural village in southern Niger, the daily routine begins the same way it has for generations. Eleven-year-old Zhara lights the fire, warms a pot of water and sweeps the family yard. Until recently, such tasks would have been just the start ...
UNICEF is helping to build child-friendly schools in Niger, where school attendance rates are among the lowest in the world. Through partnership with IKEA, UNICEF is supplying school materials, teacher training and water and sanitation facilities for students. The result is a new school that has ...
The streets of Niamey, Niger's capital city, are reported to be calm, a day after a military coup deposed the president. The West African nations' new military rulers have promised early elections and a return to democracy. The takeover has been widely condemned by other African states. Al ...
Niger's Tuareg population say that the benefits of uranium mining are not being distributed fairly, and a military campaign against the government is their only option. In the first of a series of reports, Al Jazeera's May Welsh travelled to a Tuareg base in the northern Air mountains.
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The effects of global warming can be starkly seen in the Sahara desert, where Niger is one of the countries most vulnerable. Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports from the country, where she found a bedouin tribe fighting possible extinction.
www.ntv.co.ke It was executed with precision...Niger's army attacked the leafy government district as the last of the civil servants were knocking off for lunch. By the time they were due back at work, soldiers were in charge and President Mamadou Tandja locked up.
The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining, an industry run by foreign companies that many say is having devastating environmental repurcussions. Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports on civilians and rebels in the uranium mining zone.
International envoys arrived Sunday in the west African nation of Niger where thousands of people staged rallies to support the military coup that ousted the country's strongarm leader. UN representative Said Djinnit, Ramtane Lamamra, the African Union commissioner for peace and security and ...