Niger

Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Out of Africa: Emmanuel Gbevegnon and his wife, Eriko, pose for a picture near Tokaichiba Station in Yokohama recently. KAZUAKI NAGATA Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island,...

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...with a pair of buckteeth in the lower jaw that it used to dig for food. Laganosuchus thaumastos, or PancakeCroc, found in Niger and Morocco. Also six metres long, it was a squat fish-eater with a one-metre pancake-flat head and...

In this article: Crocodile, Paul Sereno, Hans Dieter Sues, Wild Boar, Warthog, National Geographic Magazine, University of Chicago, and McGill University

...of Chicago and Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal excavated the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old "BoarCroc'' in Niger. (Mike Hettwer/National Geographic via Associated Press) WASHINGTON - A 20-foot-long crocodile with...

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...people this veritable menagerie of crocodiles," he adds. They came in all sizes: •Kaprosuchus saharicus or "BoarCroc," found in Niger, was 20 feet long and equipped with three rows of slashing teeth. •Araripesuchus rattoides or...

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...but belonged to a completely separate lineage that continues to this day. The crocodiles once ran and swam across present-day Niger and Morocco, when the region was covered by lush plains and broad rivers. Scientists found the...

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...in the past two years. Its agents kidnapped two Austrian tourists along the Tunisia-Algeria border in early 2008, two Canadian diplomats in Niger in December 2008, and four European tourists near the Mali-Niger border in January this year,...

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Friday, 13 November 2009, 11:40 am Press Release: International Trade Union Confederation Fundamental Labour Standards In Niger And Senegal: ITUC Extremely Concerned Brussels. 12 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine) : A new ITUC report on the...

In this article: International Trade Union Confederation, Senegal, Nablus, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, WTO, Ban Ki-moon, and United Nations

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Libya has begun repatriating hundreds of Nigerien Tuareg rebel fighters, state television in Niger reported on Wednesday, the latest sign of progress in pacifying Niger's north after two years of revolt. The fighters,...

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Giraffes have been threatened by poaching and loss of habitat The giraffe population of Niger, which was on the verge of extinction just 10 years ago, is now on the rise and moving into new habitats. From a herd of 50 animals, careful...

In this article: Giraffe, Niamey, Cattle, Poaching, Atlantic coast, West Africa, and Chad

KOURE, Niger - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on Earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the...

In this article: Giraffe, Africa, Poaching, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, and West Africa