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Spotlight | Niger
Issoufou hangs on by thread

Sand-storms are swirling around Niamey. Undermined by the insecurity that seems to have encircled Niger for the foreseeable future, President Mahamadou Issoufou has had to increase military spending to the detriment of other pressing needs. With power outages and strikes [...]

Published on 03/07/2013 at 23:01 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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