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			 / 2 November 2011
			
		
		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.
		
	 
	
		
			
				
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			 / 31 January 2011
			
		
		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.
		
	 
	
		
			
				
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			 / 24 December 2007
			
		
		"A child if I want and when I want," reads the sign at the family-health centre in Niamey where dozens of Niger women come to get free contraceptives. "I was taking the pill without my husband’s knowledge," said Zahratou Amadou, a 38-year-old mother of 10. "When he found out he repudiated me."