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NIGER: Aid caravan for the east

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Par JA08

“It will be like an airdrop, but with vehicles. We will bring food to people, fodder to animals and medication. We will offer cash for weakened animals and will try to save those that can be saved,” said the head of the Office for the Coordination of...

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Doomed desert nomads

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Par JA08

With water holes drying up and animals dying many Tuaregs are turning their backs on the desert and heading for cities in the region, perhaps never to return. On the outskirts of Niger's capital city, Niamey, a sprawling tent made out of colourful cloth,...

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AREVA in Niger: the human cost of nuclear power

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Par JA08

This is what the nuclear industry wants us to forget. According to them, nuclear power is just a matter ‘safe’, ‘clean’ and ‘reliable’ reactors producing ‘low carbon’ electricity. They don’t want to think about where the fuel for those reactors come from,...

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Shifting sands of Tuareg fortune

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Par JA08

By Alex Sehmer and May Welsh "I lived through a number of droughts in Niger but the three longest ones which I remember the most swept the whole country," Gibril ag Mohamed, a 65-year-old Tuareg community leader in northern Niger told Al Jazeera. "In...

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