Considerable evidence indicates that about 60, 000 years ago, humans inhabited what has since become the desolate Sahara Desert of northern Niger.

Investments include the expansion of irrigated agriculture to improve food security, the construction of the Taoussa ( or Tossaye ) dam in Mali and the Kandadji Dam in Niger ( the latter has been under construction since August 2008 ), as well as the rehabilitation of the Kainji dam and Jebba dam in Nigeria.

The United States and United Kingdom have a far higher urbanisation level than China, India, Swaziland or Niger, but a far slower annual urbanisation rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area.

Saharan dust storms have increased approximately 10-fold during the half-century since the 1950s, causing topsoil loss in Niger, Chad, northern Nigeria, and Burkina Faso.

Several countries once had diplomatic relations with Israel, but have since broken or suspended them ( Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America ; Mauritania in the Arab League ; Chad, Guinea, Mali and Niger in non-Arab Africa ; and Iran until the Islamic revolution ).

However, Segerer ( 2010 ), the only classification since Sapir, ties Bijago to the Bak languages, based on previously unrecognized sound correspondences, and separates Bak, the rest of Northern ( Senegambian, defined by consonant mutation ), and Mel as independent branches, and Gola and Limba as Niger – Congo isolates.

The evidence is insufficient to determine if this outlier group of Niger – Congo language speakers represent a prehistoric range of a Niger – Congo linguistic region that has since contracted as other languages have intruded, or if instead, this represents a group of Niger – Congo language speakers who migrated to the area at some point in prehistory where they were an isolated linguistic community from the beginning.

The Flag of Niger has been the national symbol of the West African Republic of Niger since 1960, a year prior to its formal independence from France.

Denouncing a " double standards diplomacy ", she claimed that the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) is not legitimate to decide a military intervention in Côte d ' Ivoire since it had not intervened in Niger after the coup d ' état led by Salou Djibo on 18 February 2010.

This area would in different steps merge further via the 12 May 1893 Niger Coast Protectorate, 1 January 1900 renamed Protectorate of Southern Nigeria ( into which on 16 February 1906 Lagos was incorporated ), on 28 February 1906 made into the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, since 1 January 1914 part of British Nigeria Colony and Protectorate.

While French has been the cross cultural language of choice since independence, there are eight other official languages spoken in Niger, which include Hausa, Zarma / Songhai, Tamajeq, Fulfulde, Kanuri, Arabic, Gurmantche, and Toubou.

In the 1972 Summer Olympics, boxer Issake Dabore won a bronze medal, and Niger has sent athletes to all Summer Olympic Games held since 1964, except for 1976 and 1980.

This video was created in response to the numerous environmental problems and human rights violations that have occurred in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria since Shell began oil exploration in the region decades ago.

* Detailed Fofo Magazine-Culture et musique du Niger: popular culture magazine, produced by the " Association culturelle de promotion de la culture nigérienne ", focused since 1990s on Hip-Hop.

A second species, V. nigeriensis, was described by Galton and Philippe Taquet from younger rocks from Niger in 1982 ; this has since been transferred to its own genus, Elrhazosaurus.

Mahamadou Issoufou ( born 1952 ) is a Nigerien politician who has been President of Niger since 7 April 2011.

Issoufou was Prime Minister of Niger from 1993 to 1994, President of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1996, and was a candidate in each presidential election since 1993.

It is also the moment when farm workers need more caloric energy to cultivate their fields, since most of the agrarian labour in Niger is performed manually.

Both Burkina Faso, northern Nigeria, southern Niger, far northern Camaroon ( near Lake Chad ), central Chad, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia had struggled with dwindling rain fall since the 1960s.

A much noted characteristic of these languages is their typical Niger – Congo noun class system, since in many surrounding languages only remnants of such a system are found.

By February 13, 194, Egypt had declared for Severus, as had the imperial legate of Arabia, further diminishing Niger ’ s chances.

13, Catalogue of the Correspondence and Papers of the Niger Coast Protectorate, 268 3 / 3 / 3, p. 240.

Eyadéma's funeral was held on 13 March 2005, in the presence of a number of Presidents and other international dignitaries ; Presidents Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, John Kufuor of Ghana, Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d ' Ivoire, Mamadou Tandja of Niger and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria attended the ceremony.

It was established on May 13, 1948 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Parakou from the Apostolic Prefecture of Niamey, Niger and from February 10, 1964 promoted as Diocese of Parakou.

Diffa Region is situated in the extreme south east of Niger between 10 ° 30 ’ and 15 ° 35 ’ longitude East and 13 ° 04 ’ and 18 ° 00 ’ latitude North.

Acute malnutrition rates have risen to 13. 4 per cent in the southern Niger Maradi and Zinder departments, with 2. 5 per cent of this group identified as severely malnourished children under age five, says UNICEF quoting recent nutrition surveys by the United Nations and several non-governmental organizations.

The MSA was formed following a meeting of the Section française de l ' Internationale ouvrière ( SFIO ) federations of Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, French Sudan ( now Mali ), Gabon, Guinea, Niger, Oubangui-Chari ( now the Central African Republic ), and Senegal ; the meeting was held in Conakry from January 11 to January 13, 1957.

* October 17, 1998-1998 Jesse pipeline explosion at Jesse in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline exploded killing about 1, 200 villagers, some of whom were scavenging gasoline-the worst of several similar incidents in this country.

In October 1886 the British government appointed him vice-consul in Cameroon and the Niger River delta area, where a protectorate had been declared in 1885, and he became acting consul in 1887, deposing and banishing the local chief Jaja.

The Nigerians were repulsed three times as they attempted to cross the River Niger during October, resulting in the loss of thousands of troops, dozens of tanks and equipment.

The first attempt by the 2nd Infantry Division on 12 October to cross the Niger from the town of Asaba to the Biafran city of Onitsha cost the Nigerian Federal Army over 5, 000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing.

In October, 2002 the Intelligence Community ( IC ) produced a classified, 90-page National Intelligence Estimate ( NIE ) on Iraq's WMD programmes which cited reports that Iraq began " vigorously trying to procure " more uranium from Niger and two other African countries.

* Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced by Laura Rozen, American Prospect Online, October 25, 2005

The discovery was then published on October 25, 2001, in the scientific journal Science by Paul C. Sereno of the University of Chicago and National Geographic's Explorer-in-Residence, Hans C. E. Larsson from Yale University and the University of Toronto ( formerly a student at the University of Chicago ), Christian Sidor of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, New York and Boubé Gado of the Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines in Niamey, Niger.

On 10 October 2010, Niger earned a shock 1 – 0 win over Egypt at home in the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualification.

After home wins -- but away losses -- over South Africa and Sierra Leone, on 8 October 2011 Niger qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in its history.

Boutabout received his first call-up to the Algerian National Team for a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Niger on October 11, 2003.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Bishop, Niger Territory, 19 October 1888

Ali Saibou ( 1940 – 31 October 2011 ) was the third President of Niger from 1987 to 1993 succeeding the deceased Seyni Kountché.

In " The CIA Leak ," published on October 1, 2003, Novak describes how he had obtained the information for his July 14, 2003, column " Mission to Niger ":

Newsweek reported in October 2003 that a source familiar with Rove's side of the conversation told Newsweek that Rove told Matthews it was " reasonable to discuss who sent Wilson to Niger.

A Case Study of the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger " file, The Oakland Institute, October 31, 2006.

In December of 2009, for example, Guinea, Madagascar, and Niger were all removed from the list of eligible countries ; by October of 2011, though, eligibility was restored to Guinea and Niger.