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Index Agadez

Agadez, formerly spelled Agades, is the largest city in central Niger, with a population of 118,244 (2012 census). [1]

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Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary

The Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary is a nature reserve in the north center of the nation of Niger.

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Aïr Mountains

The Aïr Mountains or Aïr Massif (Ayăr; Hausa: Eastern Azbin, Western Abzin) is a triangular massif, located in northern Niger, within the Sahara Desert.

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Abalak

Abalak (or Abalagh) is a town located in the Tahoua Region, Abalak Department of northern Niger.

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Aderbissinat

Aderbissinat is a town and commune in central Niger.

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Agadez and Arlit attacks

On 23 May 2013, two coordinated attacks perpetrated by Islamist affiliates targeted the two Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit, the first being a military base the other a French-owned and operated uranium mine.

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Agadez Mosque

Agadez Mosque is a prominent mosque in Agadez, Niger.

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Agadez Region

Agadez is an administrative Region in Niger.

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Air Afrique

Air Afrique was a Pan-African airline, that was mainly owned by many West African countries for most of its history.

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Air Niger

Air Niger was an airline based in Niamey, Niger.

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Akokan, Niger

Akokan is a mining town in the Arlit Department of the Agadez Region of northern-central Niger.

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Akoubounou

Akoubounou, or Akabinu in the local Tin Sert language, is a village located in the west to the town of Abalak, in the Tahoua Region of Niger.

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Ali Saibou

Ali Saibou (17 June 1940 – 31 October 2011) was the third President of Niger from 1987 to 1993 succeeding the deceased Seyni Kountché.

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Ali Sharif al-Rifi

General Ali Sharif al-Rifi was the commander of the Libyan Air Force until 2011 when his air force was destroyed by the NATO attacks during the Libyan Civil War.

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Aouderas

Aouderas (alt: Adharous, Auderas) is an oasis village in the Aïr Mountains of northeastern Niger, about north-northeast of the regional capital of Agadez.

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Arik Niger

Arik Niger was the Nigerien subsidiary of Arik Air based in Niamey, Niger.

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Assamakka

Assamakka is a small desert town in northern Niger at a main border crossing with Algeria.

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Association des Scouts du Niger

The Association des Scouts du Niger (in Hausa language Iskutun Niger and Zarma language Nizer Skutey) is the national Scouting organization of Niger.

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August Heinrich Petermann

Augustus Heinrich Petermann (18 April 182225 September 1878) was a German cartographer.

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Awlad Sidi Shaykh

The Awlad Sidi Shaykh (or Ouled Sidi Cheikh) was a confederation of Arab tribes in the west and south of Algeria led by the descendants of the Sufi saint Sidi Shaykh.

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Azalai

The Azalai (Tamasheq, var. Azalay) is a semi-annual salt caravan route practiced by Tuareg traders in the Sahara desert between Timbuktu and the Taoudenni salt mine in Mali, or the act of traveling with a caravan along that route.

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Bankilare

Bankilaré (var. Bankilare, Bankilary)Eric Komlavi Hahonou, Mohamed Idrissa, Salou Ali.

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Bilma

Bilma is an oasis town and commune in north east Niger with a population of 4,016 people.

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Bombino (musician)

Omara "Bombino" Moctar (in Tifinagh ⴱⵓⵎⴱⵉⵏⵓ; b. 1980) is a Nigerien singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Brigi Rafini

Brigi Rafini (born 7 April 1953) is a Nigerien politician who has been Prime Minister of Niger since 2011.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Cinema of Niger

The cinema in Niger grew from ethnographic documentaries in the colonial period to become one of the most active national film cultures in Francophone Africa.

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Colony of Niger

The French Colony of Niger was a French colonial possession covering much of the territory of the modern West African state of Niger, as well as portions of Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad.

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Communes of Niger

The Departments of Niger are subdivided into communes.

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Compagnie générale transsaharienne

The Compagnie générale transsaharienne (CGT) was a French company founded in 1923 that provided road and air transport in the French colonial territories that covered most of the Sahara.

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Concord Day

National Day of Concorde (Journée nationale de la Concorde, Fête nationale de la Concorde) is a national holiday in Niger, celebrated every 24 April since 1995.

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Copper metallurgy in Africa

Copper metallurgy in Africa encompasses the study of copper production across the continent and an understanding of how it influenced aspects of African archaeology.

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Culture of Niger

The culture of Niger is marked by variation, evidence of the cultural crossroads which French colonialism formed into a unified state from the beginning of the 20th century.

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Cumbancha

Cumbancha is a record label, booking agency and music publisher based in Charlotte, Vermont.

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Cure Salee

The Cure Salée (French: "Salt Cure"), or "Festival of the Nomads", is a yearly gathering of the Tuareg and Wodaabe peoples in the northern Niger town of Ingall.

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Dabaga, Niger

Dabaga is a town in the Agadez Region of northern Niger.

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Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation.

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Dao Timmi

Dao Timmi is an old military installation located in the Djado Plateau of northern Niger.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Dogondoutchi

The urban community of Dongondoutchi ("High Hill"), also nicknamed Doutchi, is located about 300 km east of Niamey the capital of Niger and 40 km from the Nigerian border.

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Donovan Webster

Donovan Webster (born January 13, 1959) is an American journalist, author, film-maker, and humanitarian.

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Dounia TV

Dounia TV (Radio Télévision Dounia) is a private press organisation based in the Nigerien capital of Niamey.

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Economy of Niger

The economy of Niger is based largely upon internal markets, subsistence agriculture, and the export of raw commodities: foodstuffs to neighbors and raw minerals to world markets.

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Education in Niger

Education in Niger, like that in other developing nations, particularly in the Sahelian region of Africa, faces challenges from poverty and poor access to schools.

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Fachi

Fachi is an oasis surrounded by the Ténéré desert and the dunes of the Erg of Bilma in eastern Niger, placed on the western edge of the small Agram mountain outcropping.

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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863.

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Foreign relations of Niger

Niger pursues a moderate foreign policy and maintains friendly relations with both East and West.

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France–Niger relations

France–Niger relations refer to foreign relations between France and the Niger.

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Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.

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French exonyms

Below is a list of French language exonyms for places in non-French-speaking areas.

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Gendarmerie Nationale (Niger)

The Gendarmerie Nationale (Gendarmerie Nationale Nigérienne) is the national paramilitary police force of Niger.

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Geography of Niger

Niger is a landlocked nation in West Africa located along the border between the Sahara and Sub-Saharan regions.

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Geology of Niger

The geology of Niger comprises very ancient igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rocks in the west, more than 2.2 billion years old formed in the late Archean and Proterozoic eons of the Precambrian.

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Group Bombino

Group Bombino is a music group of Agadez, Niger led by Tuareg guitarist Omara Moctar and including some of the members of their associates Group Inerane.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 27 million people, and as a second language by another 20 million.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa) are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.

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Heinrich Barth

Heinrich Barth (16 February 1821 – 25 November 1865) was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.

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Human rights in Niger

According to the Republic of Niger's Constitution of 1999, most human rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are upheld and protected.

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Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta (محمد ابن بطوطة; fully; Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة) (February 25, 13041368 or 1369) was a Moroccan scholar who widely travelled the medieval world.

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Iferouane

Iferouane (Iférouane), also spelled Iferouan, is an oasis town in northern Niger, in Agadez Department.

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In-Gall

In-Gall (var. In Gall, I-n-Gall, In-Gal, Ingal, Ingall) is a town in the Agadez Region, Tchirozerine Department of northeast Niger, with a year-round population of less than 500.

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Issouf Ag Maha

Issouf ag Maha (Agadez, 1962) is a Nigerien Tuareg writer.

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Kamilou Daouda

Kamilou Daouda (born December 29, 1987 in Agadez) is a Nigerien footballer.

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Kel Ayr

Kel Ayr (also Kel Aïr) was a semi-nomadic Tuareg tribal confederation.

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Kel Owey

The Kel Owey (var. Kel Owi, Kel Ewey form People of the Bull) are a Tuareg clan confederation.

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Kunta family

The Kunta family (the Awlad Sidi al-Wafi) is among the best-known examples of a lineage of Islamic scholarship with widespread influence throughout Mauritania, Senegambia, and other parts of the Western Sudan, and are closely associated with the expansion of Qadiriyya.

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Larissa National Airport

Larissa State Airport "Thessaly" (Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Λάρισσας “Θεσσαλία”) was built in 1912.

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List of airports by IATA code: A

The DST column shows the months in which Daylight Saving Time, a.k.a. Summer Time, begins and ends.

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List of airports by ICAO code: D

Format of entries is.

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List of airports in Niger

This is a list of airports in Niger, sorted by location.

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List of buildings and structures in Niger

A list of notable buildings and structures in Niger.

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List of cities in Niger

This is a list of cities and towns in Niger.

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List of colonial governors of Niger

This is a List of Colonial Heads of Niger for the period of French Colonial rule.

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List of country subdivisions by area

This is a list of the 50 largest country subdivisions and dependent territories by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.

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List of Dakar Rally fatal accidents

This is a list of Dakar Rally fatal accidents involving both competitors and non-competitors who have died during a Dakar Rally event.

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List of diplomatic missions of Algeria

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Algeria.

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List of hospitals in Niger

This is a list of hospitals in Niger.

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List of hotels: Countries N-O

This is a list of what are intended to be the notable top hotels by country, five or four star hotels, notable skyscraper landmarks or historic hotels which are covered in multiple reliable publications.

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List of Islamist terrorist attacks

Terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists to further a perceived Islamist religious or political cause have occurred globally.

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List of lingua francas

This is a list of lingua francas.

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List of mosques in Africa

This is a list of mosques in Africa.

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List of terrorist incidents in January–June 2013

This is a timeline of individual violent attacks which took place from January to June 2013, including attacks by state and non-state actors for political motives.

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List of the oldest mosques

The designation of the oldest mosque in the world requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest mosque congregation.

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List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants/country: L-M-N-O

This is a list of towns and cities in the world in alphabetical order beginning with letters L, M, N and O, by country believed to have 100,000 or more inhabitants.

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List of United States drone bases

This is a List of United States drone bases, containing military bases from which the United States operates unmanned aerial vehicles.

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List of United States military bases

This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces currently located in the United States and around the world.

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List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription

This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Africa

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 135 World Heritage Sites in Africa.

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Mano Dayak

Mano Dayak was a Tuareg freedom fighter, leader, and negotiator.

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Mano Dayak International Airport

Mano Dayak International Airport is an airport in Agadez in Niger.

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Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar (also known as M.dou Mouktar; born 1986) is a Tuareg songwriter and musician based in Agadez, Niger, and is one of the first musicians to perform modern electronic adaptations of Tuareg guitar music.

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Migrants' African routes

The expression migrants' routes suggests the main geographical routes taken by migrants.

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Mohamed Bachar

Mohamed Bachar is a Niger international football player.

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Mokhtar Belmokhtar

Mokhtar Belmokhtar (Arabic: مختار بلمختار; born 1 June 1972), also known as The One-Eyed, Nelson, The Uncatchable,Mokhtar Belmokhtar is pronounced in Algerian; The One-Eyed, The Uncatchable.

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Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès

Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès (also Mont Bagzane, Mont Bagzan) is the highest mountain in Niger.

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Moussa Kaka

Moussa Kaka is a Nigerien radio journalist and director of Maradi based station Saraounia FM, as well as a correspondent for France's Radio France International.

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Moussa Yahaya

Moussa Yahaya (born 4 January 1975) is a Nigerien retired footballer who played as a striker.

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Music of Niger

The music of Niger has developed from the musical traditions of a mix of ethnic groups; Hausa, the Zarma Songhai people, Tuareg, Fula Kanuri, Toubou, Diffa Arabs and Gurma.

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Niger

Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.

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Niger Air Base 201

Niger Air Base 201 (also known in some sources as "Nigerien Air Base 201") is an under-construction United States drone airbase located in Agadez, Niger.

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Niger Airlines

Niger Airlines is a Nigerien airline based in Niamey.

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Niger Armed Forces

The Niger Armed Forces (Forces Armées Nigeriennes) (FAN) includes military armed force service branches (Niger Army and Niger Air Force), paramilitary services branches (National Gendarmerie of Niger and National Guard of Niger) and the National Police.

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Niger Movement for Justice

The Nigerien's Movement for Justice (in French Mouvement des Nigériens pour la justice, MNJ) is a largely Tuareg ethnic, northern Niger based militant group.

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Niger–United States relations

Niger–United States relations are bilateral relations between Niger and the United States.

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Northern Songhay languages

Northern Songhay is the smaller of the two branches of the Songhay languages.

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Ordre du Mérite Saharien

The Ordre du Mérite Saharien (Order of Saharan Merit) was established in 1958 as a reward for social, scientific, economic or administrative services rendered by French or foreign persons who participated in the development of Saharan regions.

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Organization of World Heritage Cities

The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization of 250 cities in which sites of the UNESCO World Heritage list are located.

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Ouma Laouali

Ouma Laouali is a Nigerien pilot, and the first woman to serve as a pilot in the country.

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Ouranosaurus

Ouranosaurus (meaning "brave (monitor) lizard", alternatively "sky lizard" after the primordial Greek god Ouranos) is a genus of herbivorous iguanodont dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous (Aptian to early Albian age) at some point between 125 and 112 million years ago, in what is now Africa.

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Ousmane Issoufou Oubandawaki

Ousmane Issoufou Oubandawaki (born 5 September 1948, Journal Official du Sénégal, 24 October 2005.) is a Nigerien politician.

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Outline of Niger

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Niger: Niger – landlocked sovereign country located in West Africa.

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Point-Afrique

Point-Afrique was a short-lived French airline based in Niger, operating flights between France and North and West Africa on behalf of French tour operators, using leased aircraft between 2005 and 2006.

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Public holidays in Niger

The government and people of Niger observe twelve official public holidays.

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Qadiriyya

The Qadiriyya (القادريه, قادریه, also transliterated Qadri, Qadriya, Kadri, Elkadri, Elkadry, Aladray, Alkadrie, Adray, Kadray, Qadiri,"Quadri" or Qadri) are members of the Qadiri tariqa (Sufi order).

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Rabo Saminou

Rabo Kabara Saminou Gado (born 23 May 1986 in Agadez) is a Nigerien footballer who for FUS Rabat.

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René Chudeau

René Chudeau (21 August 1864, in Angers – 1921) was a French geologist.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Salou Djibo

Lieutenant General Salou Djibo (born 15 April 1965) is a Nigerien military officer.

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Sociéte Nigerienne de Transports de Voyageurs

The Sociéte Nigerienne de Transports de Voyageurs or SNTV (English: Nigerien Passenger Transport Company) is the Nigerien government owned bus and public transport company.

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Solar eclipse of June 30, 1973

A total solar eclipse occurred on June 30, 1973.

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Soninke Wangara

The Wangara (also known as Wakore, Wankori, Ouankri, Wangarawa) were Soninke clans specialized in Silent Trade, scholarship from the University of Timbuktu and a type of Sharia law called the Suwarian Tradition.

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Spinostropheus

Spinostropheus is a genus of small carnivorous ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic period of Niger.

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Sublime Frequencies

Sublime Frequencies is a record label based in Seattle, Washington that focuses exclusively on "acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers," mostly from Southeast Asia, North Africa and West Africa and the Middle East.

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Sudano-Sahelian architecture

Sudano-Sahelian architecture refers to a range of similar indigenous architectural styles common to the African peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland (geographical) regions of West Africa, south of the Sahara, but north of the fertile forest regions of the coast.

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Sultanate of Agadez

The Sultanate of Agadez (also known as Tenere Sultanate of Aïr, Sultanate of Aïr") was a Berber kingdom centered in the city of Agadez in the Aïr Mountains, located at the southern edge of the Sahara desert in north-central Niger. It was founded in 1449 by the Tuareg. The Agadez Sultanate was later conquered by the Songhai Empire in 1500. After the defeat of the Songhai kingdom in 1591, the Agadez Sultanate regained its independence. It experienced a steep decline in population and economic activity during the 17th century. The kingdom was later conquered by the French in 1900.

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Tadres Reserve

The Tadrès Total Reserve (T'adéras/Tadress) (Réserve totale de Faune du Tadrès) is a nature reserve in the central north of Niger, southwest the city of Agadez.

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Tamanrasset

Tamanrasset (تمنراست, also known as Tamenɣest, Tamanghasset or Tamenghest, Tuareg: ⵜⵎⵏⵘⵙⵜ) is an oasis city and capital of Tamanrasset Province in southern Algeria, in the Ahaggar Mountains.

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Tasawaq language

Tasawaq (Tuareg name: Tesăwăq), sometimes also called Ingelshi, is a Northern Songhay language spoken by the Issawaghan (or Ingalkoyyu), a community surrounding the town of Ingal in Niger.

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Ténéré

The Ténéré (Berber: Tiniri, literally: desert, wilderness) is a desert region in the south central Sahara.

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Tessaoua

Tessaoua, formerly known as Tessawa, is a city located in the Maradi Region of Niger.

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The Bedlam in Goliath

The Bedlam in Goliath is the fourth studio album by American progressive rock band the Mars Volta, released on January 29, 2008, on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal Motown Records.

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Timeline of the 2011 Libyan Civil War and military intervention (16 August – 23 October)

The Libyan Civil War began on 17 February 2011 as a civil protest and later evolved into a widespread uprising.

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Timeline of World War I

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Timia

Timia is a small town and commune in northern Niger situated at an oasis in the Aïr Mountains, Agadez Region, Arlit Department.

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Tin Zaouatine

Tin Zaouatine (تين زاوتين) (also spelled Tinzouatine) is a commune, coextensive with the district of Tin Zaouatine, in Tamanrasset Province, Algeria.

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Tongo Tongo ambush

The Tongo Tongo ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and U.S. soldiers near the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returning to base from a mission.

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Trans-Sahara Highway

The Trans-Sahara Highway is a proposed transnational highway project to pave, improve and ease border formalities on an existing trade route across the Sahara Desert.

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Trans-Saharan trade

Trans-Saharan trade requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant.

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Transport in Niger

Transport in Niger is composed of the transportation systems and methods used in this landlocked nation, with cities separated by huge uninhabited deserts, mountain ranges, and other natural features.

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Tree of Ténéré

The Ténéré Tree (French: L'Arbre du Ténéré) was a solitary acacia, of either Acacia raddiana or Acacia tortilis, that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth—the only one for over.

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Tuareg people

The Tuareg people (also spelt Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Kel Tamasheq, Kel Tagelmust) are a large Berber ethnic confederation.

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Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995)

From 1990 to 1995, a rebellion by various Tuareg groups took place in Niger and Mali, with the aim of achieving autonomy or forming their own nation-state.

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Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009)

The Tuareg Rebellion of 2007–2009 was an insurgency that began in February 2007 amongst elements of the Tuareg people living in the Sahara desert regions of northern Mali and Niger.

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United States Military Operations in Africa (2007-Present)

The United States has ongoing intelligence, security cooperation, and counter intelligence operations in multiple African countries.

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UTA Flight 772

UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris that crashed into the Ténéré desert after an in-flight explosion in September 1989 with 170 people on board.

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1300

Year 1300 (MCCC) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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1974 London–Sahara–Munich World Cup Rally

The 1974 London–Sahara–Munich World Cup Rally, known also under the commercial identity of 1974 UDT World Cup Rally, was the second and final of the World Cup Rallies to be held.

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1979 Paris–Dakar Rally

1979 Dakar Rally, also known as the 1979 Paris–Dakar Rally was the first running of the Dakar Rally event.

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1997 Paris–Dakar Rally

1997 Dakar Rally also known as the 1997 Paris–Dakar Rally was the 19th running of the Dakar Rally event.

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2000 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) and American Express to call upon every government in the world, preservation organizations, and other groups and individuals to nominate sites and monuments that are particularly endangered.

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2009 West Africa floods

The 2009 West Africa floods are a natural disaster that began in June 2009 as a consequence of exceptionally heavy seasonal rainfall in large areas of West Africa.

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2009–10 Nigerien constitutional crisis

The 2009–2010 Nigerien constitutional crisis occurred in Niger due to a political conflict between President Mamadou Tandja and judicial and legislative bodies regarding the Constitutional referendum that opponents claimed was an attempt to extend his mandate beyond the constitutional maximum.

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2009–10 West African meningitis outbreak

The 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak was an epidemic of bacterial meningitis which occurred in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria since January 2009, an annual risk in the African meningitis belt.

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2014 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2014.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadez

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