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UN Agencies Send Emergency Aid to Flood-Stricken Niger
allAfrica.com
- Monday, October 02, 2006
United Nations agencies have sent emergency aid to Niger, where floods caused by exceptional rains from July to September have affected 43,000 persons in five regions, with serious implications for the health
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Niger Will Go Down-Csaba
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, October 01, 2006
CRANES head coach Laszlo Csaba, has said that with good team work, Uganda will pick a win away in
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West Africa: this year’s rain has killed thousands
Global Voices Online
- Saturday, September 30, 2006
Black Looks reports that flash floods have left thousands of people homeless in West Africa .
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Cholera death toll rises to 22
Topix
- Saturday, September 30, 2006
Twenty-two people have died of cholera in Niger since the beginning of September, said the health minister on Friday, pushing up the official death toll from the outbreak. Comment
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Abdou Diouf urged to use Francophone summit to set deadline for decriminalizing press offences
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
Reporters Without Borders appealed today to Abdou Diouf, the secretary-general of the International Organisation of Francophone Countries , to get member states to set a timetable for decriminalizing press ... Comment
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Lizards on the wall
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
If cockroaches get into your bags," my friend Humaiya said, shaking her head in disgust, "they'll lay eggs there and follow you wherever you go." A Ghanaian married to a Belgian man, Humaiya has three children ... Comment
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CPJ condemns continued imprisonment of journalists in Niger
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
An appeals court in Niger today upheld 18-month jail sentences for two journalists convicted of defamation and spreading false information in an article criticizing Prime Minister Hama Amadou. Comment
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Groups Seek to Combat Desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
Leading international scientists, researchers, representatives of donor agencies, non-governmental groups and U.N. agencies are hoping to evolve a better future for sub-Saharan Africa's drylands, safe from the ... Comment
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U.N. food envoy slams Europe over 'hunger refugees'
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
The United Nations investigator on the right to food slammed European countries on Friday for turning back thousands of "hunger refugees" from Africa while undermining African farmers through unfair trade. Comment
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Will African Agriculture Survive Climate Change?
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya is a Ph.D. student in environmental economics at Yale University; his email address is pradeep.kurukulasuriya{at}yale.edu . Robert Mendelsohn Robert Mendelsohn is a professor in ... Comment
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Opposition leader calls for the release of journalists
Topix
- Friday, September 29, 2006
The Chairman of Niger's Party for Democracy and Socialism , Mahamadou Issoufou, has called for the "unconditional" release of three journalists jailed for press offences. Comment
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Cholera Epidemic Follows Floods
allAfrica.com
- Friday, September 29, 2006
Cholera has claimed 21 lives among 206 infected people in Niger following seasonal rains that have flooded communities and left them unable to cope with a health
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Appeals Court Upholds 18-Month Jail Sentences for Journalists
allAfrica.com
- Friday, September 29, 2006
An appeals court in Niger today upheld 18-month jail sentences for two journalists convicted of defamation and spreading false information in an article criticizing Prime Minister Hama
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Ssekagya to Niamey
allAfrica.com
- Friday, September 29, 2006
CRANES Argentine-based defender Ibrahim Ssekagya yesterday communicated to Fufa saying that he would connect direct to Niamey,
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Obua Defiant
allAfrica.com
- Friday, September 29, 2006
STAR winger David Obua maintains he will be fit for Uganda's Nations Cup qualifier against
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Corn Versus Hitchens: On Niger, Plame and WMDs
(The Nation)
Yahoo! News
- Thursday, September 28, 2006
The Nation - The Nation -- A version of this was first posted at my blog at
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Uganda/Nigeria: Cranes Must Watch Out - Niger Coach
allAfrica.com
- Monday, September 25, 2006
Nigerians to lead Tchanille's Mena
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Third Journalist Sentenced to Prison for Publishing 'False Information'
allAfrica.com
- Wednesday, September 20, 2006
A court in Niger's capital, Niamey, today sentenced journalist Salif Dago to six months in prison for publishing "false information," according to local sources contacted by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Dago, a reporter for the private newspaper L'Enquêteur, is the third journalist to be sentenced to jail for his
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Floods Wreck Fragile Livelihoods
allAfrica.com
- Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Torrential rains have washed away the mud-walled homes and livelihoods of 32,000 people in Niger this year, authorities said on Wednesday, nearly double the number previously known to be
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Research balloons drop in on storms
Topix
- Monday, September 18, 2006
Somewhere high over the Atlantic, the chase was on Saturday for Hurricane
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