Niger

here, far water-locked; beyond all hum of human weal or woe; in these most candid and impartial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, as stars that shine upon the Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith; but see!

After this there remained for Severus, who wished to make himself master of the whole empire, two difficulties; one in Asia, where Niger, head of the Asiatic army, had caused himself to be proclaimed emperor; the other in the west where Albinus was, who also aspired to the throne.

Because, from Mungo Park, assassinated on the Niger, to Vogel, who disappeared in the Wadai country; from Oudney, who died at Murmur, and Clapperton, lost at Sackatou, to the Frenchman Maizan, who was cut to pieces; from Major Laing, killed by the Touaregs, to Roscher, from Hamburg, massacred in the beginning of 1860, the names of victim after victim have been inscribed on the lists of African martyrdom!

Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Plata, the Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, which carry water from the most civilised, as well as from the most savage, countries!

We hope by this time next year to have from a hundred and fifty to two hundred healthy families cultivating coffee and educating the natives of Borrioboola-Gha, on the left bank of the Niger."

There are several species of a family allied in structure and manners to our Starling: one of these (Molothrus niger) is remarkable from its habits.

Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would find?

The government of Niger has awarded China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) a second operating permit in the Agadem block and plans to export the oil via Chad and Cameroon, state television reported.

The Government of Niger continues to maintain security checkpoints in Niamey to address security concerns.

Historians of the Urhobo people and the Western Niger Delta on Nigeria' Atlantic coast where they live argue that Edoid-speaking progenitors of the Urhobo initially settled on the western banks of two tributaries of the Niger River--the Ase and the Patani-- through the waterways of the Niger River, and that they were able to clear the dense rainforest only because they had acquired metal tools, thus marking the transition from Late Stone Age to Iron Age.

'The officials in Niger should be responsible enough and cooperate with us to establish friendly and brotherly relations based on mutual respect and without intervening in each country's internal affairs,' Zidan said.

The French firm Areva has a monopoly on uranium ore mining in Niger. The Niger government has been unhappy about that and has said it is looking to diversify.