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Over the past year, desert nomad rebels in northern Niger have renewed violence against government targets in the uranium rich Saharan region because of what the rebels say is continued neglect and discrimination. The government blames the violence on drug smuggling. Phuong Tran traveled through this conflict zone, and filed this report to VOA
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Nigeria's military has launched a crackdown on oil gangs in an attempt to avert an oil supply crisis.
The country loses on average 650,000 barrels a day because of attacks on pipelines.
Haru Mutasa had exclusive access to the military's operations in the Niger Delta, where the theft of crude oil is rampant.
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The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining, an industry run by foreign companies that many say is having devastating environmental repurcussions.
Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports on civilians and rebels in the uranium mining zone.
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Niger's Tuareg population say that the benefits of uranium mining are not being distributed fairly, and a military campaign against the government is their only option.
In the first of a series of reports, Al Jazeera's May Welsh travelled to a Tuareg base in the northern Air mountains.
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The effects of global warming can be starkly seen in the Sahara desert, where Niger is one of the countries most vulnerable.
Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports from the country, where she found a bedouin tribe fighting possible extinction.
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In 2005 a food crisis hit Niger. Out of a population of 12 million, 3.6 million went hungry and 800,000 children faced starvation. But activists in Niger claim that the famine was not caused by drought. "This is a structural famine. A permanent famine," says journalist Moussa Tchangari. "It was caused by 20 years of structural adjustment programs.
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Footage from Stakeholder Democracy network partners Kebetkatche - an alliance of women's groups in the oil-rich Niger Delta - who have begun marching through their villages and towns, calling for an end to violence that is killing more than 1500 people every year. This is footage of a march through Bodo, Ogoni in Rivers State on 21st July 2007.