Paul Niger (21 December 1915 – 22 June 1962) was a poet and political activist from Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. He was born Albert Béville, but Niger's passion...
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Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to...
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Tongo Tongo ambush (redirect from 2017 Niger ambush)
The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked...
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Order of the Niger. Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) Member...
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The US military intervention in Niger was the deployment of special operations forces and unmanned aerial vehicles by the United States in support of...
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Alliance of Sahel States (category Military history of Niger)
Alliance of Sahel States (AES/ASS) is a confederation formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. It originated as a mutual defense pact created on 16...
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The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps...
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Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint...
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The Lapis Niger (Latin, "Black Stone") is an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum. Together with the associated Vulcanal (a sanctuary to Vulcan) it constitutes...
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Nigersaurus (redirect from Niger saurus)
was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation in an area called Gadoufaoua, in Niger. Fossils of this dinosaur were first described in 1976, but it was only...
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conflict in the Niger Delta first arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta's minority...
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Kryptops (category Cretaceous Niger)
is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Niger. It is known from a partial skeleton found at the Gadoufaoua locality in...
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Simone Schwarz-Bart, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Oruno Lara, Daniel Maximin, Paul Niger, Guy Tirolien and Nicolas-Germain Léonard. Music and dance are also very...
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Corruption in Niger has a long history in pre-colonial and colonial era, as well as in the current state and has been a pervasive issue in the country's...
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Black caiman (redirect from Melanosuchus niger)
The black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is a crocodilian reptile endemic to South America. With a maximum length of around 5 to 6 m (16 to 20 ft) and a...
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Jobaria (category Mesozoic Niger)
Jobaria is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Niger during the middle Jurassic Period, between 164 and 161 million years ago. Jobaria...
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de Nerval Paul Niger Anaïs Nin Mona Ozouf, historian Marcel Pagnol Gisela Pankow, psychoanalyst Ève Paul-Margueritte, novelist Lucie Paul-Margueritte...
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Elrhaz Formation (redirect from Gadoufaoua, Niger)
of Niger known for its extensive fossil graveyard. It is where remains of Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, were found (by Paul Sereno...
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Eocarcharia (category Cretaceous Niger)
what today is the country of Niger. It was discovered in 2000 on an expedition led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno. The type and only...
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continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. One of his most widely publicized discoveries is that of a nearly complete...
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Simon Niger is a person in the Book of Acts in the New Testament. He is mentioned in Acts 13:1 as being one of the "prophets and teachers" in the church...
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Niger (born in 1869 at the Rouges-Terres stud farm, owned by Constant Forcinal) was a trotter horse originated from a lineage of the now-extinct French...
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l'Homme and history and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959...
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in Guadeloupe in 1939 and deputy to Mayor Élie Chauffrein (1953–1956) Paul Niger, real name Albert Béville; writer, administrator, and militant; born on...
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Afrovenator (category Fossils of Niger)
Period on the Tiourarén Formation and maybe the Irhazer II Formation of the Niger Sahara region in northern Africa. Afrovenator represents the only properly...
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The government and people of Niger observe twelve official public holidays. These include international commemorations, the commemoration of important...
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West African giraffe (redirect from Niger Giraffe)
(Giraffa peralta or Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), also known as the Niger giraffe, is a species or subspecies of the giraffe distinguished by its...
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politician and war hero Justin Catayée, poet and black-consciousness activist Paul Niger, and Wanda Llosa, first cousin of future Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa...
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Bilma (redirect from Bilma, Niger)
Bilma is an oasis town and commune in north east Niger with, as of the 2012 census, a total population of 4,016 people. It lies protected from the desert...
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This is a list of villages and settlements in Niger State, Nigeria organised by local government area (LGA) and district/area (with postal codes also...
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