Niger

Niger

Population: 14.4 million
GNI: $3700 million
Debt: $1800 million
Overview: A Tuareg-led rebellion in the north, food shortages and rows with France over the price of uranium exports will test President Mamadou Tandja's government. Criticism is mounting of his treatment of oppositionists.

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  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

Revolt in the desert

As uranium, and maybe oil, raise hopes of income, northern Tuareg rebels have gone to war again

  • Vol 48 No 18
  • 07/09/2007

Yellowcake rebellion

President Mamadou Tandja has declared a state of alert in the north, the base of Niger's fast growing uranium industry, after attacks on key targets killed some 50 government soldiers.

  • Vol 48 No 8
  • 13/04/2007

AREVA IN HOT WATER

The war of words between two non-governmental agencies and French nuclear energy company AREVA escalated last week, with public accusations of malpractice in the extraction of uranium in Niger and Gabon.

  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

'Drowning season'

While Europe strives to keep out African would-be migrants, Algeria and, increasingly, Libya daily dump hundreds of them, penniless, south across the border into Niger. The European Union's exclusion drive has stiffened since October, when some 2,000 ...

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Explosive uranium

Niger is at the centre of a row over intelligence used to justify the United States' invasion of Iraq and the deepening personal battle between President George W. Bush's White House and one of Washington's senior Africanist ambassadors, Joseph Wilson,...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  • 26/08/2005

Blaming each other

Everyone was warned about the food crisis but politicians ignored it

  • Vol 42 No 8
  • 20/04/2001

Starting from scratch

A new democracy, an empty treasury and a hollow economy

  • Vol 41 No 2
  • 21/01/2000

Rallying

The much hyped, much criticised, trans-Saharan car race, the Dakar-Cairo Rally (still called Paris-Dakar), won huge but costly publicity when, instead of for the first time driving across Libya, contestants were airlifted there from Niamey. Tripoli hailed...

  • Vol 40 No 24
  • 03/12/1999

Tandja wins, ok

The former ruling party pulled it off again: Mamadou Tandja of the Mouvement National pour la Société de Développement polled 59.9 per cent of the vote in the military-run presidential poll on 24 November. The MNSD also won 38 of ...

  • Vol 40 No 20
  • 08/10/1999

Dead men's shoes

The election to replace the dead dictator, General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, is due on 17 October, organised by the man whose soldiers killed him. Major Daouda Malam Wanké, now head of the ruling junta, commanded the Presidential Guar...

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