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Niger: Niger back in the news?

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Niger, Humanitarian Response, Media & Journalism

Is Niger back in the news [1]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…”