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...planet," Sevran emphatically replied. Known as an relentless attention-seeker, the defiant Sevran drew only limited fire for his comments, and a public rebuke from his public television employer - though not the cancellation of his Sunday program that many demanded. Appalled at the light punishment, the government of Niger (itself a victim of recent famines) announced it would file libel charges against Sevran in French courts...
...armies of Red Cross volunteers to distribute bed nets and to offer village-based training for tens of thousands of villages across Africa. In a brilliant demonstration of people power and modern logistics, Red Cross volunteers distributed nets to more than half the households of Togo in 2004 and Niger in 2005 in a matter of a few days in each country. That successful delivery model should be replicated across Africa, by 2010 if not earlier, but this will depend on mobilizing the needed resources...
...character has hooked web-surfers since his inception with his blend of down-home folksiness and frat-boy antics. He first gained national attention when he hungrily mused about the existence of "yellow cake" in Niger. His failed attempts to locate the tasty dessert were widely chronicled, but most of his audience seemed not to care; they were simply happy to be along for the ride with this charismatic personality, whose most salient trait is his ability to give others humorous nicknames...
...Wilson contend, for example, that the Administration violated their free-speech rights by taking ?retaliatory action? after Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to several nations, wrote an op-ed piece questioning a central reason for attacking Iraq: President Bush?s claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Presumably, the retaliation was the outing of Plame as a CIA official, but there?s room to debate how much harm came of that act. She didn?t lose her job or get demoted or suffer any other obvious damage. And even if the outing violated...
...what I have.”In some places, like the Central Hospital of Agadez, doctors still carry the small black leather bag of my great-grandfather’s generation. These doctors still administer false hope in lieu of the real thing.The AIDS crisis in Niger is acknowledged neither by doctors, who refuse patients tests, nor by epidemiologists, who subscribe to much deflated AIDS rate statistics. Though the percentage of infected individuals here is many times greater than the most heavily affected countries in the West, Niger is not South Africa, where as much as 40 per cent...