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The pandemic could deliver a crippling blow to media houses across the continent

Niger will not extradite al-Saadi Gaddafi even though the son of the slain Libyan leader violated his asylum conditions with "subversive" comments.

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.

Mutinous troops led by an army colonel captured Niger's President Mamadou Tandja on Thursday, and said they were suspending the Constitution.

"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."

Several thousand people demonstrated peacefully in Niger's capital on Thursday in a new protest called by a coalition of civic rights groups against the cost of key services in the country. After a rally outside the Parliament, the protestors marched to Nelson Mandela Square, near the presidency, where they handed a petition to two aides of President Mamadou Tandja.