Facts worth discovering about Niger
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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Niger.
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1. Niger is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. The Niger has one of the most unusual routes of any of the major rivers in the world. It starts approximately 240 km from the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of flowing to the nearby Atlantic Ocean it instead heads inland, away from the sea into the Sahara Desert.
2. The country of Niger is one of the hottest countries in the world and is famously nicknamed as ‘Frying Pan of the World’. It can get hot enough to make raindrops evaporate before they hit the ground. Niger possesses a sub-tropical climate, with the majority of the land mass dominated by an arid, desert environment, making the country hot and dry.
3. Niger is home to one of the world’s largest protected reserves, the Air and Tenere Natural Reserves, which is the refuge for animals like addax, Cheetah, Oryx and the gazelle. The entire reserve covers 77,360 km2, which made it the second largest nature reserve in Africa, and the fourth largest in the world.
4. Tuareg and Inadan men wear veils. Although the Tuaregs are Muslim the women do not cover their faces. The Tuareg are best known for the men’s practice of veiling their faces with a blue cloth dyed with indigo. Early travelers’ accounts often referred to them as the “Blue Men” of the Sahara Desert, the region where many Tuareg live.
5. Tree of Ténéré is a sculpture in Agadez. The metal sculpture in the site where was standing lonely tree, reportedly – the loneliest tree in the world. This Acacia was standing 400 km from the nearest tree until it was knocked down by a car in 1973.
6. There are several old cities, towns and villages in the country with well-preserved traditional architecture. Some are abandoned such as Djado and Djaba and now are exotic ruins in the middle of desert. Others are alive such as Agadez, Fachi, and Zinder and to outsider may look like living open-air museums.
7. Gobero site in Agadez is the oldest known graveyard in the Sahara, was used already circa 8,000 BC. Here have been found remnants of extinct animals, human remains and many interesting artefacts. Site was inhabited for some 5 thousand years.
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Cat. Reel 294. 1967: Reel 3: Niger. Feb. 8-9. Tera. Feneko. Niamey. Birni N'Gaouré. Magaria.
Leather bags of millet.
Panorama (of Tera).
Bundles of wood for sale.
Village. Net fishing (Tera).
Village: low walls are boundaries of properties (Feneko).
Pounding millet: wooden pestle.
Village huts.
Skin bellows for fire (underexposed).
Mending metal dish using tongs.
Baobab trees.
Nomads. Tents. Girls in braids (cu).
People selling at ferry landing.
Ferry approaching landing: motorized tugs, landing planks.
At Niamey market:
Metallic embroidery cloth.
Salt posts, skins, for sale.
Used clothing for sale.
Pottery: note two-mouthed jugs (cu).
Foot treadle sewing machine operator. Shade skins for sale.
Gourd dishes.
Traditional medicine: bits of clay, metal, cloth, etc.
Coiled fish (possibly from Kollo).
Market scenes: crowds.
Worn chopping block.
Market scenes: crowds, woman with metallic dress or scarf.
Outdoor Museum showing tribal tents (Niamey):
Tent of Toubous of Belma: large awl to fasten sections (cu)
(*see K's notes on museum).
Tents of Toureg de L'Air: sections fastened with heavy cord:
skin top, center support.
Tente Wogo: hemispherical mat tent, sections fastened by reed
Tente Kourtei: hemispherical mat tent, vertical strips.
Peul Tent: reed tent, top half is conical.
Market (en-route to Birni N'Gaouré).
Animal section: camels.
Market: general view.
Earthen mounds for kebabs.
Camel saddles. Camel meat cooking (some cu).
Market at Birni N'Gaouré.
Tribal men.
Millet in bundles.
Land Rover: flat tire.
Village, granaries ( en-route to Madaoua).
Village of Magaria:
Granaries. Reed fences.
Boys grinding grain on flat stone. Note haircut.
Women with children.
Small earthen granary vessel.
Village, granaries: huts, reed fence, wattle granary
Mounting saddled horses.
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Wegen schmutzigen und unhygienischen sanitären Anlagen erkranken im Niger viele Kinder schwer. Hilf jetzt mit, und ermögliche armen Kindern den Zugang zu hygienischen Latrinen. Gemeinsam sorgen wir so dafür, dass Kinder gesund bleiben und in einem liebevollen Zuhause aufwachsen.
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Sultan (; Arabic: سلطان sulṭān, pronounced [sʊlˈtˤɑːn, solˈtˤɑːn]) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning strength, authority, rulership, derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning authority or power. Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who claimed almost full sovereignty in practical terms (i.e., the lack of dependence on any higher ruler), albeit without claiming the overall caliphate, or to refer to a powerful governor of a province within the caliphate. The adjective form of the word is sultanic, and the dynasty and lands ruled by a sultan are referred to as a sultanate (سلطنة salṭanah).
The term is distinct from king (ملك malik), despite both referring to a sovereign ruler. The use of sultan is restricted to Muslim countries, where the title carries religious significance, contrasting the more secular king, which is used in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
A feminine form of sultan, used by Westerners, is Sultana or Sultanah and this title has been used legally for some (not all) Muslim women monarchs and sultan's mothers and chief consorts. However, Turkish and Ottoman Turkish also uses sultan for imperial lady, as Turkish grammar—which is influenced by Persian grammar—uses the same words for both women and men. However, this styling misconstrues the roles of wives of sultans. In a similar usage, the wife of a German field marshal might be styled Frau Feldmarschall (similarly, in French, constructions of the type madame la maréchale are quite common). The female leaders in Muslim history are correctly known as sultanas. However, the wife of the sultan in the Sultanate of Sulu is styled as the panguian while the sultan's chief wife in many sultanates of Indonesia and Malaysia are known as permaisuri, Tunku Ampuan, Raja Perempuan, or Tengku Ampuan. The queen consort in Brunei especially is known as Raja Isteri with the title of Pengiran Anak suffixed, should the queen consort also be a royal princess.
In recent years, sultan has been gradually replaced by king by contemporary hereditary rulers who wish to emphasize their secular authority under the rule of law.