Niger: Niger back in the news? · Global Voices
Ndesanjo Macha

Is Niger back in the news because of reports of famine? Not really:  “Niger isn’t in the headlines. It’s barely ever been in the headlines. It got a couple of weeks of coverage in mid-2005, courtesy of a BBC camera crew who visited an MSF feeding centre in the east of the country and snapped some shots of a few skeletal children…”