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Malian refugees see future in Niger
The world’s poorest country is nevertheless host to 61 000 Malians who fled jihadist attacks
Niger capital’s ‘green lung’ faces suffocation
The "green belt" of trees surrounding Niger’s capital, which was created to stop the advance of the Sahara desert, is dying a slow death.
Big turnout urged as Niger votes for new leader
Niger’s junta leader called on voters to turn out massively Monday to close the door on military rule by electing a new, civilian president.
Africa’s biggest film festival opens in Ouagadougou
Africa’s biggest film festival opens on Saturday in the capital of Burkina Faso hoping for a revival of the continent’s ailing cinema industry. The Pan-African Film and…
Niger’s children may never recover from hunger
Three children played happily on Thursday in the courtyard of an orphanage in the southern Niger town of Maradi. Only a month ago, the three were at death’s door as a result of…
‘When I had finished, they didn’t even bleed’
The arrest this week of a 63-year-old woman in Burkina Faso accused of circumcising 16 young girls has brought home to many that genital mutilation is still widespread in the…