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Niger
Population: 14.6 mn.
GDP: 5.5 bn.
Debt: 0.6 bn.
Overview:

President Mahamadou Issoufou's most serious challenge will be to absorb 250,000 Nigerians who fled Libya and to cope without their remittances. He will back Mali in the campaign against Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Food security remains tenuous but oil and uranium revenues boost the budget.


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  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 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
  •  13th April 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
  •  20th January 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 peop...

  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 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, ov...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  •  26th August 2005

Blaming each other

Everyone was warned about the food crisis but politicians ignored it

  • Vol 42 No 8
  •  20th April 2001

Starting from scratch

A new democracy, an empty treasury and a hollow economy

  • Vol 41 No 2
  •  21st January 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
  •  3rd December 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 the ...

  • Vol 40 No 20
  •  8th October 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 Guard, ...

  • Vol 40 No 8
  •  16th April 1999

Accidental coup

The murder of President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara on 9 April was a genuine coup d'etat. After a couple of days' confusion, the dead man's supposed ally, Commandant Daouda Malam Wanké, head of the Presidential Guard, was nominated as tra...

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