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Bombino, The Tuareg guitarist

By ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS/npr.org

November 30, 2011 Art, Highlight Comments Off

Among the best discoveries of 2011 was Bombino, a 21-year-old Tuareg guitarist with an Italian-inspired nickname, a life that in short order forced him to take up residence in four different countries around his beloved Sahara Desert, and a sound and shredding ability that inspire references to Jimi Hendrix.

Hundreds of returning Tuaregs alarm Mali, Niger

August 31, 2011 Current Affairs, Featured Comments Off

Niger to start oil production in Q1 next year – PM

June 17, 2011 Business, Economy Comments Off

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Niger army hunts for Al-Qaeda after clash

June 16, 2011 Current Affairs Comments Off

NIAMEY (AFP) — Troops scoured Wednesday Niger’s northern desert for Al-Qaeda militants who clashed with troops at the weekend after arriving from Libya loaded with…
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Meningitis cases dramatically down in the West Africa Region

June 16, 2011 Social Comments Off

OUAGADOUGOU, 15 June 2011 (IRIN) – The roll-out of a revolutionary meningitis vaccination in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has dramatically cut transmission rates, according…
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ECOWAS lifts sanctions against Niger, Guinea

March 25, 2011 Featured, Politics Comments Off

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Thursday lifted sanctions against Niger and Guinea after elections over the past six months returned both countries to civilian rule.

Man of compromise takes power after military return Niger to civilian control

March 23, 2011 Featured, Politics Comments Off

Free and fair election puts Mahamadou Issoufou in charge after military’s ousting of the increasingly autocratic Mamadou Tandja

Sanitation: Making toilets the norm in rural Niger

February 24, 2011 Featured, Social Comments Off

Candid talk about human excrement is making people in rural Niger, where only 2 percent of the population has access to adequate sanitation, insist on building and using toilets: A project there is showing people from scores of villages the dangers of open defecation

Video: Niger – A Love Apart

January 26, 2011 Video News Comments Off

In a few days, charismatic teenager Rhaissa, a nomadic Tuareg from Niger, will marry a man she’s never met. After the wedding, everything will change….
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