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Agadez, Niger (AFP) Sept 26, 2024 -  Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the town in Niger is now under threat from flooding.

Floods

Agadez

Space Daily

Floods threaten Niger's historic 'gateway to the desert'

If the world's migrant population could be counted as a single country, it would be the fourth largest country. One summer evening, the unrelenting sun over Niger refused to dip below the horizon. I sought out some shade with three anxious men in Touba au paradis, a small quiet restaurant in Agadez. These three Nigerians had tried to make the crossing at Assamaka, to our north, into Algeria, but found the border barred. They hoped their final de…

Refugees

Immigration

Signs of the Times

Three new kinds of refugees in a world of migrants

It feels somehow wrong though to refer to the particularly vibrant brand of Tuareg rock played by Etran de L’Aïr as blues, desert or otherwise. There’s an exuberance in their adrenaline-fueled anthems and frenzied jams that resists the term. The band has its roots as a touring wedding band in central Niger, and the group’s songs more often than not feel buoyed by the ecstasy of celebration, conjuring scenes of late nights dancing beneath the des…

Aquarium Drunkard

Etran de L’Aïr : 100% Sahara Guitar : Aquarium Drunkard

COOPI is looking for a Country Administrator in Niger COOPI has been present in Niger since 2012 with a coordination office in Niamey, and field bases in Diffa, Agadez, Tahoua, Maradi and Tillabéry . Currently, COOPI works in the Diffa region in the sectors of protection, mental health, and education in emergency situations, in Niamey and Agadez in mixed migration with the management of transit huts and psychosocial support for refugees and migr…

Breaking Wide

Niger – Country Administrator

Devastation in the Aïr Massif: A Call for Aid On Tuesday, August 26, the Agadez region of Niger experienced an onslaught of heavy rainfall, unleashing devastating floods across the Aïr massif. Images circulating on social media depict entire villages engulfed in thick mud, with traditional mud houses reduced to ruins. Local authorities have yet to […]

Agadez Region

Axadle | Wararka Africa

Niger: Residents of the Aïr Mountain Range in the Region

The United States handed over the last military base in Niger to the ruling junta. She gave the American troops, numbering around a thousand men and women, complete notice. Relations between the countries soured a year ago when Niger's military overthrew a democratic government. The military field airport and drone base in Agadez was one of the last centers of the US counterterrorism operation in the entire region. There is speculation that they…

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American forces are leaving Niger. The Russians are interested in the bases

The United States is winding down its military operations in Niger ahead of a mid-September deadline agreed with the country’s ruling military junta.  The landlocked nation in west Africa recently announced it was ending military cooperation with the US after 11 years. This was after the military in Niger overthrew the country’s democratically elected president.  Niger has been a strategic military partner of several countries, including the US,…

Military Operations

Terrorism

The Conversation

US military is leaving Niger even less secure: why it didn’t succeed in combating terrorism

Once an emblem of the two countries' security ties, Air Base 201 will be vacated by Monday, according to two U.S. officials.

Defense News

US to depart final base in Niger next week, nearly ending withdrawal

ENRG Elements has secured a three-year renewal across its three exploration permits comprising its 100 per cent-owned Agadez uranium project that sits in the prospective West African country of Niger.

The West Australian

ENRG gets three more years to hit uranium home run in Niger

ENRG Elements Ltd (ASX:EEL) has picked up a suite of strong grades – including up to 58,805 parts per million triuranium octoxide (U3O8) – from a trenching program at its Agadez uranium project in Niger. The program concentrated on the Takardeit uranium resource within the project, and confirmed it to have high-grade mineralisation in a braided and nested channel system, with other assays including 46,805 ppm and 41,902 ppm U3O8. Additionally, 1…

themarketonline.com.au

Trenching work reveals 58,805 ppm U3O8 in Niger for ENRG Elements

On the occasion of the release of the new album of the Touareg rock group from Agadez, Niger, focus on the American label, which also produces Mdou Moctar, Les Filles de Illighadad, Mamman Sani, Aly Bounaly Traoré...

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