NIGER WATCH

Great idea. Would love to see it extended to Sudan, DRC and N Uganda. Project Play was conceived by Mike Mitchell, based on his experienc...

It is simply unacceptable to allow over 850 million people go to bed hungry in a world that produces more than enough food for all. Eco-far...

Arica's water systems need annual investments of about $20bn over the next two decades, a United Nations report has concluded. The Afric...

More than 1.5m children under five die each year because they lack access to safe water and proper sanitation, says the United Nations child...

NIAMEY, Aug 11 ( Reuters ) - hat tip Coalition for Darfur : One soldier was killed and another abducted in northern Niger when armed men at...

Reuters report by Andrew Cawthorne via Mail & Guardian 24 July 2006: Food emergencies in Africa are occurring three times more often no...

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Niger has withdrawn permission for a BBC team which found evidence of hunger in the country to continue to report on the humanitarian situat...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