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AllAfrica News: Niger
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All Africa, All the Time.
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Court Rejects Imprisoned Journalist's Petition, Returning Case to Starting Point
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns today's decision by Niger's highest appeal court to reject a request to rule that the records of journalist Moussa Kaka's intercepted telephone calls cannot be used to prosecute him on charges of "complicity in a conspiracy against the authority of the state."
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Export Controls Curtail Aid for Hungry Neighbours
Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to source cheap food for the hungry.
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President Sirleaf Addresses Women's Conference in Niger
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was a featured speaker Monday at the Women for a Better World Conference held in Niger. A special guest of the President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, the President spoke candidly about Liberia's challenges as they relate to gender development while also underscoring her Government's triumphs in increasing the enrolment of female students as a part of Liberia's compulsory primary education initiative. The President was addressing hundreds of women from the Continent of Africa and Spain, who converged on Niamey, Niger's capital, to devise concrete actions to ensure that women are involved in the creation of a better world. The results of their commitments are listed in the Niamey Declaration.
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On the Occasion of World Press Freedom Day, MFWA Urges Governments to Respect Press Freedom
As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day, tomorrow, May 3, 2008, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is once again drawing attention to the deteriorating press freedom situation in The Gambia and Niger, where serious freedom of expression and press freedom violations continue unabated.
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JPC Boss Off to W/Africa Justice Confab
The National Director of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, Cllr. Augustine Toe leaves Monrovia today for Abuja, Nigeria.
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