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Article: Niger: country profile.
- Article from:
- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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NIGER'S Tenere Desert could well be the world's most beautiful. Dreamy dunes of orange sand rise to over 200 metres in these southern swathes of the Sahara, often topped by distant glimpses of the majestic mountains of Air and Tenere. Two-thirds of Niger is desert and most of its people make their way in the more fertile south watered by the great river which gives the country its name.
Yet the desert helps define Niger in more ways than one. In the mid-1970s the country was hit hard by the merciless drought which gripped the whole of the Sahel. In the mid-1990s Niger is most likely to be mentioned in international news for the ongoing rebellion of the nomadic ...
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