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NIGER Issue dated 09/07/2014

Hama Amadou: a very strange probe

The investigation into shots that were fired on the residence of parliamentary speaker and opposition leader Hama Amadou earlier this year is getting nowhere - or perhaps there is no investigation. [...] (275 words)

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