Full Coverage: Niger

21.01.2009 Children in rural Niger who received ready-to-use food in addition to their normal diet were nearly 60 per cent less likely to progress to the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, than children whose diets were not supplemented, according to a new study.

23.04.2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.

25.10.2007 Limited access to food, health care, and outside assistance, compounded with recent bouts of ethnic violence and government and militia reprisals, has led a UN agency to warn that northern Niger may be on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.

28.09.2007 The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) recently declared war on the Nigerian government and oil companies, demanding that local communities see benefits from the billions of dollars of oil removed from the region.

26.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (OneWorld) - International donors' apathy towards African flood victims is worrying numerous UN agencies involved in humanitarian relief operations.

27.10.2006 As many as 4,000 Mahamid Arabs living in southeast Niger since the 1980s or before will be forced to return to Chad, the government said Tuesday, citing ethnic tensions that developed over increasingly scarce resources.

21.06.2006 Ahead of the July African Union Summit on 25 June in Banjul, Faith Cheruiyot looks at contrasting experiences from two largely Islamic west African countries that reveal the importance of the AU Protocol on WomenÂ’s Rights in Africa.

12.06.2006 Food aid in Niger arrived too late in 2005, despite widespread predictions that famine was imminent. The world has known for months that famine is also coming to southern Africa but policymakers are still not responding to the warnings. Read more about the importance of early warning in food security in Niger in the latest id21 insights.

03.03.2006 Niger will be hit by critical food shortages within two to three months, according to Norwegian Church Aid.

03.02.2006 For the first time in three years the number of polio-endemic countries has dropped and eradication efforts will enter a new phase that targets the two surviving strains of the virus. Egypt and Niger have been polio-free for 12 months, the first time in recorded history, thanks to efficient and intense immunization campaigns designed to halt Africa's polio epidemic.

29.12.2005 In this article Kady Souley Boncano shares her experience of how radio made her a star in her country in a week's time. She describes the changes Niger has undergone in last few years and the way radio has affected women's life in Niger.

15.12.2005

© Lutheran World Relief

Lutheran World Relief has received a $640,104 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help nomadic communities in Niger avert food crises through new, innovative approaches that help bring vulnerable populations back from the brink of hunger.

25.11.2005 Without urgent international action to deal with the consequences of this year's food crisis in Niger, the country faces a second successive year of extreme suffering and hardship, the UN World Food Programme has warned.

03.11.2005 "Last week I sat in the back of a land rover that was rushing a critically ill baby to hospital." Caroline Hickson comes face to face with reality in Niger.

24.08.2005 The quality and quantity of relief food aid distributed by the WFP in Niger is ineffective in remedying the acute malnutrition children are facing, Médecins Sans Frontières said Tuesday, and urged U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan take measures to ensure aid reaches the real needs of people.

19.08.2005 Medical teams report a continuing increase in the number of children requiring treatment in Zinder, Niger's second largest city.

16.08.2005

© Action Against Hunger-USA

West Africa is entering a yearly cycle of chronic food shortage. This year, due to several natural events, the shortage will turn into crisis if help is not sent. Almost 100 percent of last season's crops were destroyed by swarms of desert locusts. Coupled with scarce rainfall during the majority of planting season, much of West Africa is speeding towards mass starvation. Approximately 3.6 million people in Niger alone currently are at risk of food shortage. Through GlobalGiving, you can help the people of West Africa by contributing to a project that will provide food assistance.

16.08.2005 Nomads have been so badly hit by the Niger food crisis that their already fragile way of life is at risk, according to a new assessment in the south of the country.

12.08.2005 Women's savings groups in Niger, better able to survive the food crisis because they have stored grain and financial resources, are sharing and distributing food stocks as well as selling seeds to farmers at discounted prices to help their communites stave off hunger.

10.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 10 (OneWorld) - Famine in Niger is the most visible sign of a West African food crisis that could have been averted had international donors not been so stingy with some of the world's poorest countries, a leading aid group has said.