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Niger

Type: Country

Name: Niger

population: 11,925,510

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 12 Documents

Three ancient crocodile species found (AAP)

A six-metre long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers report.While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Species, Niger, Araripesuchus, National Geographic Society, Paul Sereno

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Earth Science)

Ancient crocodiles filled different, often scary, niches

Crocodiles have a nasty reputation, but the leathery, snappish critters have been around so long that they probably gave dinosaurs a fright too.On Thursday, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and his colleague at McGill University in Montreal, ... [Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Fossil, Niger, Species, Araripesuchus, Paul Sereno

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

At least 11 Nigerian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

Increases the bookmarktwitterfacebookdiggGoogleWindowsliveDeliciousbuzzfriendfeedLinkedindiigoredditstumbleuponHead of the Nigerian government medical team to the 2009 pilgrimage, Ibrahim Kana, has confirmed that 11 Nigerian pilgrims have died in Saudi ... [People's Daily Online - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Nigeria, Sokoto, Bauchi

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

PHCN Decries Vandalism in Niger

The Niger state business office of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has decried the rate at which electrical installations are vandalised in the state.The business office unit which communicated the situation in a press release signed by its ... [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Niger, Minna (Nigeria), public relations

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Overland airline commences flight operation in Minna

From John Ogiji, MinnaFOLLOWING the sharp disagreement between the Niger State government and capital airline and the subsequent termination of Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) by the former, Overland Airline has taken the advantage of the vacuum created ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Minna (Nigeria), Airline, Niger, Ilorin, Katsina

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Commission recovers N70m from contractors in Niger

From John Ogiji-MinnaThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the present administration in Niger state to probe the award of contracts by immediate administration in the state has so far recovered the sum of N70 million from contractors who failed ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Niger, Judicial, Muazu Babangida Aliyu

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

S.Korea's Birthrate Remains Lowest in the World

South Korea ranks at the very bottom of the global birthrate list for the second year, according to statistics released by the World Health Organization on Thursday. South Korea had an average of 1.2 babies per woman of reproductive age based on 2007 ... [Digital Chosun - 11/19/2009]

Entities: South Korea, Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 Documents

Couple's love story started in Africa

Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger.Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a nurse. Emmanuel, a native of the city of Cotonou in Benin, ... [Japan Times - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Benin, Japan, Niger

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

'Al-Qaeda Africa wing less likely to carry out attacks in Europe'

'Al-Qaeda Africa wing less likely to carry out attacks in Europe' WASHINGTON, Nov 18, (RTRS): Al Qaeda's North African wing is less likely now to carry out attacks in Europe, mainly because of pressure on the group from Algerian security forces, a US ... [Arab Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Qaeda, Mali, Algeria, Daniel Benjamin

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Politics)

ECOWAS FMs meet in Nigeria ahead of regional summit

LAGOS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A meeting of the foreign ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is underway on Friday in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, ahead of next week's regional summit.The meeting chaired by Nigeria's Foreign ... [Xinhua News Agency - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Economic Community of W. African States, Nigeria, Ojo Maduekwe, Small Arms, Togo

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

Sereno's Crocodilos [Ciência Ao Natural]

Mais uma excelente monografia sobre a vida na Terra. Do passado dos Crocodylia, mais concretamente sobre o registo fóssil do Cretácico do Saara. Desta vez Paul Sereno é acompanhado por Hans Larsson na escrita de uma obra que vai ser uma referência futura. ... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Sereno, Araripesuchus, Paul C

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

'Niger still on the rails'

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS Was R260.00 Now R208.00Lagos - Niger's foreign minister has defended her government's right to hold two disputed polls this year that incurred international sanctions, and strongly denied ... [News24.com - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Niger, Aichatou Mindaoudou, European Union, Mamadou Tandja, Economic Community of W. African States

Quotes

...Peter Makovicky, chairman of Chicago's Field Museum geology department and a dinosaur specialist, who had no role in Sereno and Larsson's research. "Until now, the only place you saw diversity like this in crocodiles was in the Mesozoic [a geologic era 245 to 65 million ago] in Madagascar and South America. It's pretty interesting to see some of these animals spending a lot their time on land, some of them eating plants" Makovicky said...

Ancient crocodiles filled different, often scary, niches [Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago]

... Aqui o PDF. Abstract Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara Paul C Sereno, Hans C E Larsson "Diverse crocodyliforms have been discovered in recent years in Cretaceous rocks on southern landmasses formerly composing Gondwana. We report here on six species from the Sahara with an array of trophic adaptations that significantly deepen our current understanding of African crocodyliform diversity during the Cretaceous period. We describe two of these species (Anatosuchus minor, Araripesuchus wegeneri) from nearly complete skulls and partial articulated skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation (Aptian-Albian) of Niger. The remaining four species (Araripesuchus rattoides sp. n., Kaprosuchus saharicus gen. n. sp. n., Laganosuchus thaumastos gen. n. sp. n., Laganosuchus maghrebensis gen. n. sp. n.) come from contemporaneous Upper Cretaceous formations (Cenomanian) in Niger and Morocco." Referência: Paul C Sereno, Hans C E Larsson. ZooKeys 28: 1-143 (2009) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.28...

Sereno's Crocodilos [Ciência Ao Natural] [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 19 hours ago]

...of SuperCroc, whose existence was already known, and weighed in at eight tons, measuring some 12 metres, before then discovering the others. "Many of the fossils were found lying on the surface of a remote, windswept stretch of rock and dunes. The crocs galloped and swam across present-day Niger and Morocco when broad rivers coursed over lush plains and dinosaurs ruled" National Geographic said

Dino-eating crocs found [iafrica.com - 11/20/2009]

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PHCN Decries Vandalism in Niger [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]
Commission recovers N70m from contractors in Niger [Nigeria Guardian - 11/20/2009]
At least 11 Nigerian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia [People's Daily Online - 11/20/2009]
Three ancient crocodile species unearthed [USA Today - 11/20/2009]
Introducing: BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCr... [McGill University - 11/20/2009]
Crocodile fossils found in Africa [IOL - 11/20/2009]
Scientists unearth 'supercroc' that dined on di... [The Independent - 11/20/2009]
New croc species fossils found [News24.com - 11/19/2009]
Al Qaeda Africa group has little support [Maktoob Business - 11/19/2009]
Strange Ancient Crocodiles Swam the Sahara [LiveScience.com - 11/19/2009]
Five strange ancient crocs found in Sahara dese... [Yahoo! News - 11/19/2009]
Fossils: Some ancient crocodiles ate dinosaurs [USA Today - 11/19/2009]

Blogs

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Sereno's Crocodilos [Ciência Ao Natural] [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 19 hours ago] Mais uma excelente monografia sobre a vida na Terra. Do passado dos Crocodylia, mais concretamente sobre o registo fóssil do Cretácico do Saara. Desta vez Paul ...
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nucl... [The Greenpeace weblog - 11/17/2009] French nuclear giant AREVA is upset by the six Greenpeace activists who boarded the transport ship Happy Ranger in the Fehmarn Belt strait between Denmark and ...
Ann M. Veneman: Mali: A Country Confronting Iss... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/14/2009] This past week I returned from a three day trip to Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, and one of the poorest in the world, with over half the population ...
Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake... [Wired: Threat Level - 11/13/2009] Valerie Plame Wilson cannot publicize details of her work as a CIA operative, even though a government official already outed her as an agent in an attempt to discredit ...
Morning Brief: U.S. ambassador expresses doubts... [FP Passport - 11/12/2009] U.S. ambassador expresses doubts about Afghan troop increase Top story: U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry has expressed reservations about ...

Audio/Video

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Farmers Help Turn Back Niger’s Desert [Mefeedia Video Tag : chemistry - 07/02/2009]
Niger violence over constitution [Reuters Video: Top News - 06/08/2009]

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