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Erha field FPSO begins journey to Nigeria American oil firm, ESSO Exploration and Production ... The first oil from the field is expected to be in international market by the first half of next year - 2006.The Erha FPSO is the major vehicle for the production of the fields as well as to foster the development of Nigerian based industry by ...2.7

GENEVA - September 13 - A nutritional survey in the Zinder region reveals a worsening situation, with little to indicate that the alarming conditions will improve in the near future.1.3

Niamey - Niger said on Thursday it was surprised to be put in 177th and bottom place in a prosperity list issued by the United Nations development programme this week.

A prosecutor in northern Niger is looking into charges of "defamation" against a correspondent for Radio France Internationale following complaints by a regional governor, Yahaya Yandaka, a judicial source ...

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday received credentials from ambassadors of different countries including France, Egypt and Nigeria and promised them that they would get all necessary ...2.7

The following statement was issued today by Mr. Mbuyamu Matungulu, the International Monetary Fund mission chief for Niger, in Niamey: The purpose of the visit by the IMF staff was to conduct the first review ...

Peasant farmers in Niger, a largely desert and poor west African nation hard hit by famine, face a tough choice where crops are ripening, between raising money to repay debts and clothe children or having food ...4

When Ilguilas Weila left his village at age 7 to go to school in a distant town in southern Niger, other children's parents asked a question that burned his ears: "Who owns that boy?" They were surprised to ...

In another dramatic last-minute standoff, Iraqi leaders put off a vote on a draft constitution Monday, adjourning parliament at a midnight deadline in a bid for three more days to win over the Sunni Arab ...1.3

Still smarting from the frustration at the recently concluded National Political Reform Conference, for not achieving 25% derivation, South-South appears set to actualise its threat to control its resources at ...3.1

Federal funding for the Pittsburgh-based abstinence-only educational ministry, the Silver Ring Thing, has been withdrawn by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a press release from the ...

Since the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings in April, debt relief and other issues related to ... In the past few weeks, the world's attention has focused on the extremely difficult situation in Niger, where food shortages have become critical.

Mozambican health officials know they are being overwhelmed by tuberculosis - and fear the crisis may be even worse than thought.

JAPAN: NEXT FOR SALARYMEN, LONG JOHNS Spurred by the success of a national campaign called Cool Biz that encouraged men to shed their jackets and ties this summer in a bid to save energy and cut greenhouse ...

Traffic wardens issue strike notice Unless the Police authorities in the country act now, the ... Nigeria to study Egypt, UAE economic models In a strategic move to boost trade and open up investments with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (U.2.7

President Bush took on the California mother who has been defiantly protesting outside his Texas home, saying Tuesday that Cindy Sheehan doesn't represent the views of most military families and that fulfilling ...

After the first delivery of emergency food aid was made in her province in drought-stricken Niger, a mother told a Catholic Relief Services worker, Were going to eat until we cant eat anymore.

Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2005. By Paul Ford . Sources The United Nations warned that 2.5 million people will die of hunger in Niger if the country does not receive foreign food aid immediately.

The number of Indonesians stricken by polio climbed to 219, the U.N. health agency said Monday, with 14 new cases reported in children who hadn't been vaccinated for the crippling disease.

Several hundred former rebel Tuaregs from the west African state of Niger have enlisted in the Libyan army, a magazine published in Niger reports.2.7

About 70,000 people are braced for another day of chaos at Heathrow after British Airways cancelled all flights until Friday evening.2.7

An unidentified woman filters millet in Malankaka near Maradi, Monday, Aug. 8, 2005.

While no one disputes the pain involved for the settlers, only a small minority of Israelis regard next week's operation to uproot their fellow Jews from the Gaza Strip as a national catastrophe.2.1

Why rumour of third term bid persists President Olusegun Obasanjo may not be allowed the time to face serious business of governance until he covertly or overtly supports a successor, The Guardian has learnt.2.7

Mauritania's military junta has been outlining its plans for the mainly-desert nation, hoping to ... As the coup mastermind Col Ely Ould Mohamed Vall courted diplomats, political parties and the public, ousted president Ould Taya broke his silence from his base in Niger.2.7

An unidentified pulmonary disease raging through a diamond mining community in eastern Congo has killed 21 people and infected nearly 1,000 others, the United Nations and aid groups said Tuesday.

Leaders of the coupe in Mauritania announced on Wednesday that they formed a military council for running the country's affairs until democratic elections are carried out.2.7

A few months ago, the transitional legislative assembly that huge and costly white elephant of the ... Taylor was in Nigeria under an agreement brokered by the international community.2.7

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Livestock feed and crop seeds are sorely needed in Niger to stave off a famine threatening more than 2.5 million people, the UN food agency said as it renewed an appeal for four million dollars in emergency ...3.2

CNN's Anderson Cooper will anchor 360 from Maradi, Niger tonight. "Children are starving to death," the CNN.com teaser says, and Cooper is there to "put a human face on the hunger crisis." "Anderson has a ...

Darbani - Red bracelets worn by the children look almost like decorations, until a man explains they are used to tag infants suffering from the more advanced stages of starvation.2.7