Northern Niger battles with fall-out from Tuareg rebellion
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DABAGA — “The Tuareg rebellion has brought nothing good to our zone, and armed bandits and the Libyan conflict are pushing us further into poverty.”
Tchimaden Ahmed, a 36-year-old mother of eight from Dabaga, in northern Niger’s desert region, did not mince her words.
“We live like in the Middle Ages: no electricity, no telephone, not even a mill for our grain to relieve us from the drudgery,” she added, in the local Hausa language.
Dabaga lies some 50 kilometers (30 miles) — a white-knuckle, two-hour drive along the Air mountain range in a district that was once the heartland of the Tuareg rebellion..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110724com3.html
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