Foreign governments are beginning to put public pressure of Tandja Mamadou, following his seizure of the power last Friday. Did anyone mention oil? Read More
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For Google Calendar: Fetes Nigeriennes through 2011. Read More
I've been waiting for the United States and Canadian governments to weigh in on the Nigerien political crisis. Today France released a less than pointed statement, accusing Nigerien government policies of "being outside the constitution", while the EU was a ...Read More
While reporters continue to carefully attribute the title "Coup d'Etat" to leaders of Niger's opposition, events of the last 24 hours make it hard to spin the current situation in any other way. Read More
This was the weekend for Coups: was the death of Michael Jackson assumed to distract us all? Regardless, a couple of Nigeriens have pointed out the uncanny similarities between the situation of President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and President of ...Read More
In a radio speech to the nation on Friday night (the sabbath), President Tandja announced he was dissolving the government and would rule by decree. Read More
Just when you'd like to put it to bed, the constitutional crisis in Niger continues, weaving like a distracted taxi driver: from sigh to scream and back again. I'll focus a bit on three events of importance. After Tandja sent out ...Read More
One of the three best nights for US football just happened in beautiful Bloemfontein, the States reaching the finals of the Confederation Cup by convincingly shutting down Spain, a side unbeaten since 2006, European champions, and argubly the best team in the ...Read More
I recently saw an appeal from US high school students, raising funds for anti-malarial bed nets to be delivered to the DRC. "When people find out they can donate $10 to save a life," Read More
Decent caturdays are rarer and rarer now that Icanhascheezburger has, in true capitalist fashion, cornered the market and vanillanized the "genre". Here are a couple of options: http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/harbl/interesting/ Read More