As attention is focussed on Mali along comes the BBC with this report:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17506421
For once governance may not be a problem:I am always wary of reading this:Niger has suddenly emerged, after a coup in 2010, as a welcome and unexpected exception in a rough neighbourhood. The new, democratic government was quick to detect the first signs that this year's food crisis would be particularly severe.Death, emigration to work and more can account for this. So can the presence of the media and having gone to fight - shades of Somalia too.it is shocking to note the complete absence of men
Niger has its own Tuareg's (as reported in previous Posts).
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