| October 24, 2006 | - The government of Niger told 150,000 Arab nationals that it was “high time” they returned to their native homeland in Chad.
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BBC News
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| August 9, 2005 | - The United Nations warned that 2.5 million people will die of hunger in Niger if the country does not receive foreign food aid immediately. President Mamadou Tandja responded that “the people of Niger look well-fed.”
| Source 1:
AlertNet
Source 2:
BBC News
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| August 5, 2005 | - In Niger, one child in five was dying.
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The New York Times
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| June 2, 2005 | - Thousands of hungry people demonstrated in Niger.
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Reuters
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| March 5, 2005 | -
Niger decided not to hold a ceremony to free seven thousand slaves, because slavery does not exist in Niger.
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BBC News
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| July 17, 2003 | -
CIA director George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and again took responsibility for President Bush's false claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger, but he admitted that he didn't know the claim, which he successfully removed from at least one of the president's previous speeches, would be included in the State of the Union address.
Tenet said that his staff should have told him about it.
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Washington Post
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| July 9, 2003 | - The White House admitted that President Bush's claim in his last State of the Union address that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger was based on "unsubstantiated" intelligence;
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CNN
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