Just before dusk, the first pickup trucks roll past the checkpoint and array themselves across the desert on the outskirts of Agadez, Niger. Passengers pile in, as many as 25 per vehicle ...
NIAMEY (Reuters) - An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources said. One of the sources said the woman was bundled into ...
Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...
on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70's and had lived in Niger for over two decades, according to ...
In 2007 the government was negotiating contracts with France projected to make Niger the world's second largest uranium producer. More deals allowed foreign companies to explore the desert for ...
Niger, officially the Republic is Niger, is a vast, landlocked country on the edge of the Sahara desert. Following its independence from France in 1960, Niger fell victim to a series of military coups ...
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger's Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known ...
on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70's and had lived in Niger for over two decades, according to ...