PARIS (Reuters) - Hostage takers took seven foreigners across the border into Mali on Friday, a day after abducting them in Niger, French public radio reported, citing security sources.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Junta-ruled Niger said on Tuesday it had secured $41 million in aid from international donors to stage elections, raising prospects for a peaceful return to civilian rule in the uranium-producing state.
Already stricken by a severe food crisis brought on by a prolonged drought, the people of Niger have now to contend with floods which have affected more than 200,000 people, the United Nations said on Friday.
Despite severe food crisis which Niger is already going through, about 200,000 people have been left homeless by heavy floods, The United Nations has said.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger will avoid the "worst" in its most severe food crisis since 2005 with aid reaching millions left hungry by last year's failed harvest, the government said.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Aid groups in Niger evacuated Western staff from some regions due to security threats, a move that risks undermining relief efforts at the heart of a food crisis, aid workers said on Monday.
Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, the UN's World Food Programme has said, with almost half the population - or 7.3 million people - in desperate need of food.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's military rulers for the first time have given their public approval to a multi-billion dollar Chinese oil deal signed by the former president, who was ousted by the army in a February coup.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - British supermodel Naomi Campbell will be allowed extra help from a lawyer during her testimony over a "blood diamond" at a Sierra Leone war crimes trial, and photographers will be banned from filming her.
Over 4.5 million people in the drought hit Niger are facing hunger and might die without food aid. According to the World Food Program it is doubling up its efforts in providing food assistance to the affected people.
A prominent member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), has called on the international community to help fund the presidential election scheduled for 3rd January 2011.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger will hold a presidential election in January 2011, its first since a military coup in February, the west African country's electoral commission said.
The head of the junta in Niger, Major Salou Djibo, who took over in a February 18, 2010 coup that toppled President Mamadou Tandja, 24 Feb 2010 (file photo)
Niger, a northwest African country ruled by a military junta, has signed a judicial cooperation deal with Libya, where 12 of its citizens await execution, the junta said at the weekend.
