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German TM Bierhoff Loses Brief Case to Country Robbers
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 27, 2007
erman team manager Oliver Bierhoff has become another casualty of South African armed robbers, who stole his briefcase on Sunday in ... more
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Magistrate Rejects Illegally-Obtained Evidence Against RFI Journalist
allAfrica.com - Saturday, November 24, 2007
he International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged President Mamadou Tandja of Niger to take strong action for the release of two journalists accused of criminal offences following their coverage of the Tuareg rebellion in ... more
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Govt, Niger Republic to Open Air Links
allAfrica.com - Saturday, November 24, 2007
igeria and Niger Republic have agreed to explore the possibility of opening air links between both countries to improve ... more
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Reporters Without Borders Meets Detained Journalist in Niamey Prison
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Reporters Without Borders team led by secretary-general Robert Ménard met with detained journalist Moussa Kaka in Niamey prison twice in the past two days and has had talks with the authorities on the state of press freedom in ... more
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Country, Niger to Develop Inter-Border Road Network
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
igeria and Niger Republic have expressed willingness to collaborate on the construction and rehabilitation of road networks linking both countries, to boost trade and economic ... more
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Country to Recover Its Villages From Niger - NBC
allAfrica.com - Monday, November 12, 2007
he National Boundary Commission (NBC) is making efforts to recover some straddled Nigerian villages with the Niger ... more
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Newspaper Editor Receives Threatening Phone Call
allAfrica.com - Thursday, November 01, 2007
n 26 October 2007, Hamadou Boulama, editor-in-chief of "Alternative", a bi-monthly Niamey-based independent newspaper, received an anonymous phone call in the newspaper's office, threatening his ... more
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Newspaper Editor Charged With Criminal Association, Transferred to Agadez Prison
allAfrica.com - Thursday, November 01, 2007
brahim Manzo Diallo, the editor of "Aïr Info", a privately-owned fortnightly paper, based in the northern city of Agadez, was charged on 29 October 2007 with "criminal association" and was placed in pre-trial detention in Agadez prison, where he is being held with common criminals. No date has been set... more
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Aïr Info Correspondent Arrested And Placed in Custody in Agadez With His Editor
allAfrica.com - Friday, October 26, 2007
eporters Without Borders called today for the immediate release of Daouda Yacouba of the privately-owned fortnightly Aïr Info, who was arrested yesterday at his home in the western town of Ingall and was taken to the provincial capital of Agadez. There he was placed in a cell with the newspaper's... more
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Media Regulatory Body Threatens to Close Radio And Television Stations
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
he High Communications Council (CSC), the media regulatory body, has threatened to withdraw the licence of any radio or television station that allows journalists to criticise the ... more
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Doctors Without Borders Ends Activities in Central Region After Attack
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
n Monday, October 22, five men, one of whom was armed, attacked a team of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) workers travelling in two vehicles by road from Agadez to Dabaga, in central Niger, where MSF has been providing medical care at the local health post since the... more
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Journalists Protest State Media Crackdown
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
undreds of journalists marched through the streets of the Niger capital, Niamey, on Saturday to protest the arrests of two prominent journalists in connection with a government crackdown on media coverage of a rebellion of nomadic Tuaregs in northern Niger, according to news reports and local ... more
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MSF Ordered Out of North After Third Hijacking
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
igerien authorities have ordered the French aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières to stop working in northern Niger after three of its vehicles were hijacked in the last ... more
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Humanitarian Crisis Feared in North
allAfrica.com - Monday, October 22, 2007
n an atmosphere void of information and full of insecurity, some aid workers fear a humanitarian crisis is emerging in the troubled northern region of Niger, where thousands of people are thought to be cut off, with limited access to food, healthcare and humanitarian ... more
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A Month After Moussa Kaka's Arrest, President Tandja is Urged to Stop 'Treating Journalists As Enemies'
allAfrica.com - Friday, October 19, 2007
s leading journalist Moussa Kaka is about to begin his second month in detention, Reporters Without Borders today appealed to President Mamadou Tandja for a conciliatory gesture after the imprisonment of two ... more
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Publisher Arrested, Charged With Sedition Over Story Critical of Governor
allAfrica.com - Friday, October 19, 2007
he publisher of a private newspaper in southern Nigeria, arrested last week by men suspected by local journalists to be agents of the State Security Service, was charged with sedition on Tuesday over a story critical of a local state governor, according to news ... more
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Stars Call for Release of Journalist
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 18, 2007
frican artists, performers, journalists, lawyers and academics - including Achille Mbembe, Pius Njawé, Youssou N'Dour, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Claudy Siar, Mokobe and Angélique Kidjo - were among the first people to sign a petition by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) for the release of its Niger correspondent, Moussa... more
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Africans Urge Release of Journalist
allAfrica.com - Monday, October 15, 2007
eporters Without Borders is today publishing a list of the first 68 people to sign the petition, which will remain open until Moussa Kaka is freed. Go to the Reporters Without Borders website (www.rsf.org) to sign, or send a message of support to this address : ... more
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Uranium - Blessing Or Curse?
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 10, 2007
s the global demand for nuclear energy rises, analysts say the large amount of uranium in Niger is not a benefit to the country's people but adds to the serious problems facing the ... more
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Editor of Sole Newspaper in Agadez Arrested At Airport
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 10, 2007
eporters Without Borders today called for the immediate release of Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, managing editor of privately-owned bi-monthly Aïr Info, published in Agadez, northern Niger, who was arrested yesterday at Niamey airport as he prepared to board a plane for ... more
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