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Not until 1993, 33 years after independence from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A 1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the north. Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by the creation of a National Recon... [read more]
Not until 1993, 33 years after independence from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A 1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the north. Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by the creation of a National Recon... [read more] Blog: On the road to nowhere
Date: April 24th 2005
Niger, Il fait chaud! Niger is hot, very very hot. And Niger is big, so very very big - thousands of miles of barren scrub and desert. As a result there were times in Niger where I felt I was on the road to nowhere. For those of you that have been following my blogs regularly there is news about the political situation in Niger. I'm quoting here from IRINnews.org I ... read more
Date: April 24th 2005
Niger, Il fait chaud! Niger is hot, very very hot. And Niger is big, so very very big - thousands of miles of barren scrub and desert. As a result there were times in Niger where I felt I was on the road to nowhere. For those of you that have been following my blogs regularly there is news about the political situation in Niger. I'm quoting here from IRINnews.org I ... read more
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... my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
(Alfred L... full info
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