by Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: July 19, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair this week defended their decision t

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By Carrie Giardino Shell oil company is evacuating non-essential employees from the Niger Delta area in Nigeria amid fears of clashes between government forces and armed bandits operating in the regio

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US Building Air Base for Drones in Niger The U.S. Air Force is getting close to completing a base in northern Niger for armed drones that will target militant groups operating in the area. 美国空军即将建在尼日尔北部建成无人机基地,

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African Slavery and Trafficking 非洲奴隶制度与奴隶交易 Early in March, the government of the West African nation of Niger canceled a ceremony designed to give 7,000 slaves their freedom. Th

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GWEN IFILL:We turn now to a new report which ranks the countries where mothers and their children are at the most and the least risk. The international nonprofit Save the Children finds Norway the healthiest for the third year in a row, the worst, th

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - U.N. Says Lack of Money Forces Cuts in Food Aid for African Refugees By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, September 19, 2005 This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Developmen

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Study: Oil Spills Double Risk of Baby Deaths in Nigeria A new study has found that babies have a higher chance of dying in their first few weeks of life if their mothers live close to an oil spill. Researchers studied information about babies dying a

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Thousands in Niger Demand Abolition of Tax 尼日尔数千人要求废除商品增值税 In Niger , consumer and anti-poverty groups demonstrated again Saturday to demand the abolition of a value-adde

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President Obama says he's willing to consider compromise variations to his plan for overhauling the nations health care system but only if hes convinced they will work. I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails, that doesnt work. You

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Agriculture Report - In Africa, the Greening of the Sahel This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Niger is located in the Sahel area south of the Sahara. The west African country is largely hot, dry desert. But since the nineteen eighties

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AS IT IS 2015-11-02 US Trains African Soldiers Against Boko Haram 美国训练非洲士兵对抗博科圣地 American soldiers are training soldiers in Niger to fight Boko Haram militants. 为抗击博科圣地武装分子,美国士兵正在对尼日

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AS IT IS 2015-11-07 Nigerians Say Oil Company Left Spills Behind 尼日利亚村民称石油公司未能清理泄漏 Villagers in the Niger River Delta area of Nigeria say they live in unclean conditions because oil companies have not cleaned up spil

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The political crisis in Niger appears deadlocked over the fate of a government elected under a referendum that West African leaders say was unconstitutional. The regional mediator to the conflict is waiting for the government and its opponents to res

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Su b-SaharanMigrantsRemainStrandedinLibyanTown About 3,000 sub-Saharan migrants remain stranded in the western Libyan town of Sebha, which has been under attack from anti-Gadhafi forces. Humanitarian agencies say food, water and shelter are in very s

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wrapped up her Africa trip in Cape Verde with talks that included how best to respond to this month's constitutional referendum in Niger. Niger's president is changing the constitution to extend his time i

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President Mamadou Tandja is surrounded by bodyguards as he leaves after casting his vote in a constitutional referendum that would keep him in power, in Niamey, 04 Aug 2009 A West African regional court in Nigeria says it will make a decision next mo

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Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan shakes hands with new minister of finance Olusegun Aganga in Abuja, 6 Apr 2010 Nigeria's acting president says his new Cabinet will improve security in the volatile Niger Delta, where years of violence hav

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 It was very difficult to disput

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Nigeria says the amnesty it is offering to rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta is boosting production of crude oil that had been hurt by violence. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the issue with Nigerian officials. 尼日利亚称,对

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The US is pledging the strengthening ties with Japan on various matters including global economic growth. Following a meeting today, the prime minister Shinzo Abe, the president said that whether seques

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