NIGER WATCH

BBC news Sep 16 says Niger's prime minister lashed out at donors, saying it was necessary to stop the aid so that Niger does not become ...

Huge thanks to Catez Stevens in New Zealand for initiating and hosting Spotlight on Darfur 1 , a great round up of posts authored by 14 diff...

Further to an earlier post here below, I have just received word from Catez saying Spotlight on Darfur has been put forward to 5 September a...

As noted here in previous posts, Niger's President Mamadou Tandja recently said his country was experiencing food shortages but not a fa...

Last May, Catez Stevens at Allthings2all in New Zealand kindly put together The Darfur Collection . Now, Catez is initiating and hosting Sp...

The government has been accused of wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of African aid in Malawi. BBC's Five Live Report found mor...

BBC Health Correspondent Ania Lichtarowicz reports today that health Ministers from across Africa are meeting in Mozambique to discuss the ...

Red Cross worker Mark Snelling is about to return from Niger to London - in his diary he writes of signs of hope and says: There will be ma...

From British blogger Mick Hartley: The men take control .

In his post about mainstream media, blogs and Niger, British blogger Tim Worstall points to an interesting blog entry at Owen's musings...

A report from BBC today says Niger's way of life is under threat if Niger's nomads to not get long-term help to rebuild their herds...

Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso have also been badly affected by food shortages. Click here for information at BBC news online on ...

A report today by the BBC says with attention on food shortages in Niger, aid agencies say a vast hunger belt is stretching across Africa. ...

Guardian photographer Dan Chung travelled to Niger with reporter Jeevan Vasagar to report on the country's food crisis. See Dan Chung...

Note Famine or no famine? by British blogger Keith at under the acacias blog. Keith says, in strict definition at least, President Tanja of...

What is really going in Niger? A BBC report today quotes Niger president Tanja as saying the current food crisis did not amount to a famin...

Mark Snelling is a member of the British Red Cross Society's Emergence Response Unit in Niger. See his diary at the BBC News website...

Following on from previous posts below, note this excerpt from a post on Famine in Niger at the Salmon blog July 31, 2005: "As for the...

If only Newsweek and journalists like Eric Pape could read yesterday's post here below, they might report the fact that emergency aid do...

Hopefully, John Bolton will give the UN's World Food Programme a shake up to help prevent another disaster like what happened in Darfur ...