On AlterNet: niger

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The New Wild West: Will Citizens and the Environment Suffer as an Oil Rush Engulfs West Africa?

Meena Bhandari, IPS News. November 21, 2011.

Offshore oil should be an economic boon for West Africa, but watchdog groups fear a devastating impact on human and wild life

Africa's Flourishing Niger Delta Is Threatened by a Libyan Water Grab

Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. February 3, 2011.

Mali's president and Libyan leader Gaddafi have begun a major agricultural project that will divert much of the river's water and put the delta's future at risk.

The French Nuclear Industry Is Bad Enough in France; Let's Not Expand It to the U.S.

Linda Gunter, AlterNet. March 23, 2009.

Areva, France's nuclear industry, has a solid reputation, but a trail of radioactive waste and deaths in Africa follow its wake.

Is the U.S. Paying Off the Italian Government for Forging the Niger Documents?

Jeffrey Klein, Paolo Pontoniere, AlterNet. February 19, 2009.

Evidence suggests a payoff to Italy for supplying the forged documents Bush famously used to justify launching the Iraq war.

Cheney behind forged Niger documents, says former CIA officer

Jan Frel, AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2007.

Quite an allegation. Is the evidence soon to follow?