Niger: The Land Of Fear with David Adams (Trade Route History Documentary) | Timeline
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The Sahara is the biggest desert on earth. It takes its name from the Arab word for emptiness. In the dead heart of that emptiness there's a place called the Tenere. The Tenere takes its name from the Tuareg word for nothing. A nothing the size of France in the middle of an emptiness the size of the United States. It's no wonder the locals call this place The Land Of Fear”. David Adams retraces the trade routes of the people who call this stove-hot corner of the planet home.
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Video: Niger’s Agadez, gateway to exile
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Agadez, the largest city in central Niger, has become one of the main transit points for illegal migrants from West Africa who dream of Europe. We bring you an exceptional documentary about this little-known precarious crossing, unavoidable for migrants on their way to the European continent. It’s a road filled with hope and tragedy, and above all with danger.
Every week, more than 12,000 men, women and children from West Africa take the road from Agadez, Niger's central metropolis, to Europe. They are fleeing poverty and the lack of prospects in their home countries. But Agadez is only the first step in their long and dangerous journey. First they have to cross the desert, then Libya – where they are often arrested by police – and finally the Mediterranean Sea on rickety boats. Many of them never reach their final destination.
Our reporters, Catherine Norris-Trent and Julien Sauvaget, travelled to Niger to meet these men and women who dream of a better life in Europe. Our journalists were given rare access to the ghettos of Agadez, including the houses where migrants wait before continuing their journey. They were also able to film how this illegal trafficking is organised, speaking to people smugglers before joining the migrants to board pick-up trucks launched at full speed across Niger’s Ténéré desert.
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Off The Grid - Agadez, The Migrant Mirage
Agadez, is at the heart of Europe migrant crisis. The last stop for West Africans before the most dangerous leg of their journey: crossing the Sahara desert.
Europe wants to stop them from coming. And Niger is now trying to stop them from going. We went to Agadez to meet the people risking it all to fulfill their European dream. And those still trying to smuggle them into Libya despite the government crackdown.
Production team: Nicole Johnston, Sara Monetta, Mouhssine Ennaimi and Alexandra Pauliat
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Orientation Offices in Niger
MOBCOMS are offices whose aim is to help migrants and returnees, providing information and awareness-raising activities.
Au Niger, Agadez, un carrefour de l'espoir et des rêves brisés
Aux portes du désert, en périphérie d'Agadez au nord du Niger, des pick-up surchargés reviennent de Libye. A bord, des migrants désabusés. Ils comptaient rejoindre l'Europe mais le projet s'est effondré. En Libye, les migrants sont à la merci de la police et des bandes armées qui n'hésitent pas les rançonner.
IOM Niger Promotes Safe Migration in Agadez
In the middle of the desert in Agadez, a strategic crossroad for migrants, IOM staff is assisting migrants coming from Liberia, Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Nigeria and other West African countries.
The migrants’ journeys before reaching the center are often long and traumatizing. Among them there are many who have been victims of trafficking, exploitation or abuse at the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.
The video above was made in support of IOM Niger's information campaign implemented in 2016. The aim of the campaign was to inform potential and transiting migrants about safer alternatives to irregular migration, and about the risks and dangers of trafficking and smuggling.
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IOM Niger - Agadez Simulation Exercise - English
On March 15th, IOM Niger held a crisis simulation exercise in Agadez to support local authorities and communities in preparing for a cross-border crisis. The exercise involved over 800 participants, including local communities, authorities, civil society, and security forces. This activity used a real-life scenario in order to test local and regional authorities in their ability to respond to a mass migration movement into Niger precipitated by a crisis at the border.
The simulation was organized under the project “Engaging communities in border management in Niger – Phase II”, funded by the US Department of State.
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IOM transit center in Niger
Niger is mainly known as a transit country for migratory flows from West Africa towards Libya and Algeria, and then, for some, further to the Mediterranean. Not having any possibilities to return, many remain stranded in Niger with no other choice than to try to earn enough to pay for the rest of their trip.
In its transit centres, but also in the context of stranded migrants in the desert, IOM offers immediate attention and assistance to migrants. It’s comprised of food and water, shelter, and health and psychosocial assistance. Moreover, IOM assists all migrants, Nigeriens and third-country nationals who wish to return home with transport and return assistance.
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Niger - One Simple Market and the Village Lives Again
Cluster of seven villages in Moussa-region of Niger come together to create market for sellers and buyers to meet once a week.
The World Bank's Social Development Department, together with the Agriculture and Rural Development Department, and external partners undertook a work program on Local Institutions and Climate Change to address the importance of strong local institutions and their long-term presence in successful implementation of community-based adaptation strategies.
Supported by the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program, and the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (Norway-Finland), series of activities were carried out in partnership with the Bank's regional departments from Africa, Latin America and Middle East regions and the World Bank Institute.
These short videos were prepared in coordination with the World Bank Institute and the local task teams to highlight some of the individual case studies in participating countries. They document some of the challenges of climate risks faced at the local level and show collective local response mechanisms.
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Niger contrats culture
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People smugglers in Niger need new line of work
The perilous journey of migrants and refugees who risk their lives to cross through Niger into Libya is facilitated by a vast, thriving industry. Agadez, Niger’s smuggling capital, lives off the business built around traffickers, drivers, currency traders and shop owners who sell kits for those who prepare to travel into the desert. All those people will all need to find new jobs if they are to leave the smuggling economy behind.
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Niger Artisans: Hashiru Rabiyu
The Hausa faculty of Boston University's African Language Program created the Niger Artisans Project to provide students with a video-based intermediate/advanced Hausa course linked to artisanry in the Republic of Niger. Since 1987 when BU's first group of study abroad students went to Niger, BU students have been linked to the National Museum of Niger in Niamey where many acquired skills in artisanry by serving apprenticeships to some of Niger's most famous artisans. This video course was designed to train students to be conversant in the culture and linguistics of artisanry in the Hausa language. As the project unfolded, the candid conversations with the artists often brought out topics related to modernity, tradition, and a changing economy. The final product is twelve in-depth profiles of Nigerien artisans ranging from silversmiths to fashion designers, each accompanied by transcripts in both Latin and Ajami script. This video features Hashiru Rabiyu, a potter at the National Museum in Niger.
For further information on the BU African Language Program, please contact: Professor Fallou Ngom, Director of the ASC African Language Program (fngom@bu.edu) or Dr. Peter D. Quella, ASC Assistant Director (pdquella@bu.edu).
Mdou Moctar: Guitar Trio from Niger
Mdou Moctar and his trio play traditional music of Niger.
Speaker Biography: Mdou Moctar is a Tuareg guitarist from a small village in the Azawagh desert of Niger. He plays in the tradition of desert guitar popularized by groups like Tinariwen and Bombino, but adds his own personal touches to the genre. His music is rooted in tradition, with polyrhythms borrowed from the traditional guitar-and-calabash style called takamba and lyrics sung in the style of old nomadic poets. His guitar playing is nonetheless wild and unrelenting, showing the influence of global pop. Coming from a remote region steeped in religious tradition where guitar music was all but prohibited, he taught himself to play on a homemade guitar cobbled together out of planks of wood. Teaching himself in secret, and eventually finding a real guitar, he became a local celebrity among the village youth, and went on to become an international recording artist. In 2015, he co-wrote and starred in the first ever Tuareg language film, a Saharan remake of Prince's Purple Rain.
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Night and Day : Squadron Engineers work to further construction at Nigerian Air Base 201
The 819th Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers work night and day to further construction at Nigerian Air Base 201, Agadez, Niger.
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How can we stop overpopulation? | VPRO Documentary
Overpopulation is an issue in Niger. You are never alone in Niger. In no country in the world are as many children born as in Niger, on average more than seven per woman.
But overpopulation is not easy to stop, also if demographers predict a catastrophe if the explosive population growth is not curbed. Why does nobody seem to succeed in turning the tide and stop the overpopulation?
In this series, Dutch Journalist Bram Vermeulen travels through the biggest desert on earth: the Sahara. He goes from west to east, from the Atlantic to the red sea and crosses the four biggest countries. He experiences the heat of the desert, the dangers of advancing jihadism and meets the residents of one of the most inhospitable areas on earth.
Bram Vermeulen is trying to investigate why many attempts by aid organizations to convince parents to have fewer children fail.
In this episode he also visits the desert city Agadez. The desert city was the departure point of travelers through the Sahara for centuries. But since Europe has blocked the routes to Libya and the Mediterranean Sea, Agadez is in a big crisis. Smugglers and nomads see livelihoods evaporating.
The panic in Europe about migration has had major consequences for Agadez. Under pressure from Brussels and with substantial payment, the Government of Niger has passed a law that now prohibits the transport of migrants to the border with Libya and Algeria.
Bram Vermeulen wants to know how the smugglers still manage to survive in the new situation. Agadez is now an angry city. That anger does not focus on Brussels, but on its own bureaucrats.
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Handover Ceremony of the C2 Node
Over the last two years, the U.S. Government has provided the Government of Niger with Cessna C208 aircraft. This gave Niger intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability to locate terrorists and other threats to its sovereignty. Additionally, we equipped the Base Defense Force in Agadez, four counter terrorism companies, and one logistics company. Finally, we gave Niger Armored Personnel Vehicles and Mud Boats to pursue threats to Niger. We believe all these capabilities are critical to helping Niger defeat Boko Haram and other terrorist organizations wanting to cause harm within its borders.
Today, we hand over the $16.5 million C2 Node that will integrate all these capabilities and existing Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) capabilities by synchronizing operations through communications. This new building, two deployable tactical operations centers, specialized communications equipment, radios, and training will streamline pertinent battlefield information to Commanders, so that they can best employ their forces.
Niger smugglers take migrants on deadlier Saharan routes: U.N.
26-year-old Daniel left his homeland, Cameroon earlier this year with his twin brother and uncle, aiming to reach Europe via Libya for greener pastures.
Things didn't go smoothly as planned as they fell into the hands of ruthless smugglers who demanded that they pay an extra 1,100 dollars person.
Because they didn't have the money requested, they were thrown into one of Libya's informal detention centres where they were beaten with weapons.
In Libya, we were tortured. We were kept in a compo…
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EU mission in Niger helps to train security forces
The European Union mission in the Sahel is training troops in Niger to better battle terrorists. The training focuses on managing crime scenes, escorting dangerous individuals, and data retrieval. Victor Chege takes a look.
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SAHEL-Niger 2019 : Reportage de la 5ème Édition
SAHEL-Niger 2019 : Reportage sur le salon de l'Agriculture, de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de l’Élevage