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Journalist Moussa Kaka Freed
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 09, 2008
FEX members hailed the provisional release of Moussa Kaka, a local reporter for Radio France International (RFI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), who has been freed after spending more than a year in jail on charges of collaborating with rebels in northern ... more
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CPJ Welcomes Release of Moussa Kaka
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 08, 2008
he Committee to Protect Jounalists welcomes today’s provisional release of veteran Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka after more than a year behind bars on anti-state ... more
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Court Orders Journalist's Provisional Release After More Than a Year in Detention
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
eporters Without Borders hails the order for the provisional release of journalist Moussa Kaka that was issued by a Niamey appeal court today. The director of privately-owned Radio Saraounia and Niger correspondent of Radio France Internationale and Reporters Without Borders, Kaka has spent the past 384 days in ... more
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Foreign leaders congratulate China on successful space mission
Topix - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
p>Some foreign leaders have recently extended their warm congratulation to China over the successful mission of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft. ... more
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Niger Defiant, Cranes Boosted
allAfrica.com - Monday, October 06, 2008
HE Uganda Cranes can draw some encouragement from Niger's decision to send a full team to Angola but that is just one part of the ... more
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Doctors Without Borders Still Blocked in Maradi Despite New Memorandum of Understanding
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 01, 2008
en weeks after Doctors Without Boders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) authorization to treat malnutrition in the Maradi region was suspended, the French section of MSF is no longer providing any medical-nutritional treatment on site there. A new memorandum of understanding was drafted between the Ministry of Public Health and MSF, but... more
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Nigerien rebel group denies departure of top commander
Global Voices Online - Monday, September 29, 2008
p>On its blog, Nigerien insurgent group Mouvement des Nigériens pour la Justice [Fr] denied the reported departure of Commander Kindo Zado, one if the movement's vice presidents, a former Nigerien army officer who defected to MNJ last year . ... more
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Fighting Hunger One Tree at a Time
allAfrica.com - Friday, September 26, 2008
or 17 years, the Sweden-based non-profit Eden Foundation has been working with hundreds of farmers in one of Niger's most arid zones to disprove the reigning logic that the desert is a tough place to nurture plant- and human- life through its research and free seed ... more
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Prosecution Seeks Change of Charge Against Detained Journalist Moussa Kaka
allAfrica.com - Monday, September 22, 2008
n 16 September 2008, the Director of Public Prosecution at the Niamey Appeals Court requested that the charge of "complicity in undermining the authority of the state", for which Moussa Kaka, has been detained for a year be substituted with "acts likely to undermine the security of the ... more
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Court Defers Decision On Fate of Imprisoned Journalist Moussa Kaka
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, September 16, 2008
eporters Without Borders called on Niger's judicial authorities to uphold an investigating judge's decision to drop all charges against imprisoned journalist Moussa Kaka after a Niamey court began today to hear the department of public prosecution's appeal against the decision, and then adjourned until 7 October for further ... more
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Hajj commission, air carriers sign MoU
Topix - Monday, September 15, 2008
p>The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with air carriers involved in this year's Hajj exercise. ... more
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Moumoune Ibrahim, 'I Just Want to Save My Father'
allAfrica.com - Friday, September 12, 2008
or the past two years, 17-year-old Moumoune Ibrahim has come to a UNICEF-funded, government-run Educational, Preventive, and Judicial Services youth centre where he has learned the art of camel bone sculpting. The centre tries to keep at-risk youth off the streets, and out of trouble with the law through vocational... more
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Youths Are 'Demographic Time Bomb'
allAfrica.com - Friday, September 12, 2008
iger's population is overwhelmingly young, with about 70 percent of its 13 million population under 25 years old, according to a 2005 UN, government and World Bank study on vulnerable children in ... more
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Readers' response
Topix - Friday, September 12, 2008
p>You are criminally- minded YOU are criminally minded by imputing in your "Local brains, myopic elites" article of September 3, 2008 that we should legistimise the criminal behaviour of others. ... more
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Coach Blames Players' Ignorance
allAfrica.com - Thursday, September 11, 2008
ust a day after slaying his strikers for failing to convert their chances against Niger last Sunday, Cranes coach Bobby Williamson has blamed the players' 'ignorance' for the team's failure to get a ... more
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Minister Threatens to Ban All Media Professional Groups
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, September 10, 2008
n 4 September 2008, Mohamed Ben Omar, Niger's minister of communication threatened to dissolve all media professional groups in the ... more
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Garden for Disabled Takes Root in Desert
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, September 10, 2008
umou is much like any other Nigerien gardener during this desert country's most fertile season. She wakes up at 5:00 ... more
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Readers' response
Topix - Wednesday, September 10, 2008
p>You are criminally- minded YOU are criminally minded by imputing in your "Local brains, myopic elites" article of September 3, 2008 that we should legistimise the criminal behaviour of others. ... more
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Only Niger Can Save Uganda
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, September 09, 2008
he moment everyone dreaded; Uganda Cranes returning to convoluted mathematical equations. After the 3-1 thumping in Niamey at the weekend, Uganda's fate is no longer in its ... more
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Cranes a Shambles
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, September 09, 2008
uch is the scandal of Niamey that even the verbose would go mute. Uganda's latest demise against Niger must have surprised even those who say they have long given up on The Cranes, football's perennial ... more
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