NIGER WATCH

From May 23, 2006 blog entry by Pablo Halkyard at PSD blog - The World Bank Group: Pictures from the unveiling of the first working protot...

On April 4, 2006 Keith noted Bird flu now found in Burkina Faso - the 5th African country to confirm the presence of the deadly H5N1 bird f...

Niger began culling poultry on Sunday, more than a month after it first discovered an outbreak of deadly avian flu near its southern border ...

Today, Reuters says Niger's government denied it had stripped the journalists of their accreditation, saying it had summoned them to exp...

Niger has withdrawn permission for a BBC team which found evidence of hunger in the country to continue to report on the humanitarian situat...

IRIN report Mar 29, 2006 - excerpt: UN peacekeepers delivered handcuffed former Liberian president Charles Taylor into the custody of a UN-...

A military tribunal in Niger has convicted six soldiers for their role in a 2002 mutiny, but has acquitted 57 co-defendants, say legal sourc...

There's plenty of it to meet the world's needs but too much of our supply is in the wrong places says a report at thebusinessonline....

IRIN report March 3, 2006 via allAfrica.com : New suspected cases of bird flu have emerged in three locations in Niger, days after the count...

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" ...