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...Nations with much higher fertility rates include Magafuli’s Tanzania (4.9 children), the Democratic Republic of Congo (6.0) and Niger (7.0)....
...(FT) The children shunned for being witches The shocking tale of the stigmatisation of children as witches in the Niger Delta region and their ensuing torture and neglect....
...(New Yorker) What happened in Niger?...
...After decades in which each suffered from various combinations of war, famine, dictatorship and disease, countries such as Niger, Ivory Coast and Guinea are broadly on the up....
...edward.luce@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Obama has Power Africa initiative / From Mr Charles Nsekela...
...Together with his son, moral philosopher Edward Skidelsky, he wrote a book, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life....
...The gas is then piped to Okpai, on the Niger River, which supplies 480 megawatts of electricity to the national grid....
...That, as far as Miabiye Kuromiema is concerned, has been the Niger delta’s problem....
...Edward Sterck, equity analyst at BMO Capital Markets, believes the peak of the cycle of uranium prices has passed. He sees prices declining with increasing production....
...But, as it turns out, there’s a convincing bearish case to be made too — and the man putting it forward most recently is Edward Morse, director of economic research at LCM Commodities....
...” … Name: Edward Burtynsky Born: Canada, 1955 Edward Burtynsky travelled from Vermont in the US, to Makrana in India, to Cochicho in Portugal for a series of photographs exploring the environmental effects...
...Kashi’s portfolio, “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta” examined the costs of oil exploitation in west Africa....
...Nigerian troops killed 12 militants and freed a number of hostages from an oil facility operated by Eni in the Niger Delta on Thursday....
...Militants in Nigeria attacked an Agip pumping station in the Niger Delta, kidnapping several Italian oil workers although oil shipments from the terminal were unaffected....
...Edward Allen, Calgary, Canada JvdV: Edward, we use all three approaches. Clearly, the first thing we do is leverage our own in-house capabilities....
...early as May 2003, Mr Libby began acquiring information about a trip Mr Wilson had made to Africa in February 2002 to investigate foreign intelligence claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium from Niger...
...Edward Meir, strategist at Man Financial, said that low volumes this week were likely to mean that the market would continue to trade in the ranges seen for much of the past two months....
...There were concerns about supply of crude oil because Shell said it had suspended some exports from Nigeria two days after an attack on a pipeline in the Niger Delta cut output by 180,000 barrels a day....
...Mr Wilson, who spent a week in Niger in 2002 on a CIA inquiry, said he found no evidence of Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium....
...Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador to Iraq, was sent by the CIA in 2002 to Niger to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was trying to purchase uranium for a nuclear weapons programme....
...Food being shipped to the famine-struck Niger, for example, was likely to coincide with the country's harvest, he said....
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