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    Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast...
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    On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger, during which the country's presidential guard removed and detained President Mohamed Bazoum. Subsequently...
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    The Niger River (/ˈnaɪdʒər/ NY-jər; French: (le) fleuve Niger [(lə) flœv niʒɛʁ]) is the main river of West Africa, extending about 4,180 kilometres (2...
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  • On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger when the country's presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, and Presidential Guard commander...
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    The gross domestic product (GDP) of Niger was $16.617 billion US dollars in 2023, according to official data from the World Bank. This data is based largely...
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    piece of the Economy of Niger. Exports of minerals consistently account for 40% of exports. Mineral commodities produced in Niger included cement, coal...
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  • Treaty of Lagos (category Treaties of Niger)
    2008 coup d'état  Niger – suspended from Community after 2009 auto-coup  Ivory Coast - suspended from Community after 2010 elections AU Stänger av Guinea...
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    – Mali-Niger Boundary (PDF), 13 January 1975, retrieved 4 November 2019 Decree 7 September 1911, rattachant le territoire militaire du Niger au gouvernement...
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    Niger pursues a moderate foreign policy and maintains friendly relations with both East and West. It is a member state of the United Nations. Niger maintains...
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    tentative de coup d'Etat au Niger" [Algeria condemns coup attempt in Niger]. INTERLIGNES Algérie (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2021. "Niger general Tchiani named...
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    The Benin–Niger border is 277 km (172 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with Burkina Faso in the west to the tripoint with Nigeria in the east....
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  • Niger. It was adopted on June 23, 2023, replacing La Nigerienne, which was adopted in 1961, a year after the country's gaining of independence. Niger...
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  • Mohamadou Djibrilla Maïga (category 1975 deaths)
    Djibrilla Maïga (July 8, 1908 in Colman Niger – November 23, 1975 in Paris) was a communist politician from Niger who was elected to the French Senate in...
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    Lalla Malika Issoufou (category First ladies of Niger)
    Issoufou (born 14 February 1975) is a Nigerien medical doctor and patron of many charities. She served as First Lady of Niger, alongside Aïssata Issoufou...
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    member states to the African Union (AU). The AU was the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), and AU membership was open to all OAU member...
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  • exploitation in Niger is carried out by Société nigérienne du charbon (SONICHAR, the coal corporation of Niger). SONICHAR was created in 1975. It operates...
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  • (1975) described the type locality as "Boubon, à 20 km au Nord de Niamey, Niger". According to Golay et al. (1993), the range includes Nigeria, Niger,...
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    Tuareg people living in the Sahara desert regions of northern Mali and Niger. It is one of a series of insurgencies by formerly nomadic Tuareg populations...
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    ECOWAS (category 1975 establishments in Africa)
    like ECOWAS accounted for almost half of Niger's annual budget. Following Niger's ECOWAS suspension, Niger's neighbours closed their borders to the country...
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    in Africa, and the world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in...
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    and wooded savanna from Senegal to Cameroon. Between 9,000 and 5,000 BC, Niger–Congo speakers domesticated the oil palm and raffia palm. Black-eyed peas...
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    Kanuri language (category Languages of Niger)
    Nilo–Saharan language family spoken by the Kanuri and Kanembu peoples in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as by a diaspora community residing in Sudan...
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  • AS FAN (category Football clubs in Niger)
    won the Niger League Championship (today's Niger Premier League) only twice: in 1971 and 1975. The club has reached the Coupe Nationale of Niger final only...
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    From 1990 to 1995, a rebellion by various Tuareg groups took place in Niger and Mali, with the aim of achieving autonomy or forming their own nation-state...
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    According to the Republic of Niger's Constitution of 1999, most human rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are upheld and...
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  • A coup d'état occurred in Niger on 18 February 2010. Soldiers attacked the presidential palace in Niamey under weapons fire at midday and captured President...
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    dialects. They are spoken by the Tuareg Berbers in large parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, with a few speakers, the Kinnin, in Chad...
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    Gold (redirect from Au (element))
    Gold is a chemical element; it has the symbol Au (from the word "aurum" in Latin) and the atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a bright, slightly...
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  • The Union des Femmes du Niger (UFN) was a women's organisation in Niger, which was active from 1959 to 1974 and was affiliated to the Nigerien Progressive...
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    de l'Africa, Tome I: des origines au XVIe siècle (Paris, 1962), 347-48 (reference to Delafosse in Haut-Sénégal-Niger vol. 1, pp. 256-257) Mauny 1961, pp...
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