NIGER WATCH

See Free Republic 17 Feb 2006.

Niger had pledged to pay 1,000 CFA francs (1.5 euros) per chicken in case of mass slaughter but poultry farmers say the sum is peanuts. ...

CPJ News 21 Feb 2006: The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of newspaper director Ibrahim Manzo, who spent 18 days in p...

From the BBC 21 Feb 2006: Seventy soldiers have gone on trial in Niger's capital, Niamey, for their alleged role in an attempted coup t...

Niger's government launched its first ministerial missions into rural areas this weekend to educate people on how to minimise the threat...

Around 20 armed men stormed the headquarters of a South Korean oil services company in Nigeria's lawless delta and stole more than $30,0...

Nigerian militants who say they have kidnapped four foreign oil workers and attacked on a Shell oil platform say they have carried out more ...

Associated Press reports that armed men opened fire Sunday on soldiers guarding an oil platform run by Royal Dutch Shell in the swamps of Ni...

See my latest entry at Sudan Watch: Digimotion Digital Album - Powerful stuff, check it out.

Ingrid Patetta is a french documentary filmmaker and video editor. Funny we should share the same first name. Ingrid stumbled upon my blog ...

The news wires are circulating various reports on alarming news from Malawi. Contango's post entitled "No money for Malawi" ...

Excerpt from a post on the economics of famine in Niger at DropoutPostgrad : A U.N. report found that prices in markets in Niger have shot u...

If you wish to contribute a blog entry for Spotlight on Darfur 2, please contact Eddie Beaver at Live From The FDNF in time for 16 October ...

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 ...