<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Niger: News &amp; Videos about Niger - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Niger</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Niger from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:29:47 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Niger: News &amp; Videos about Niger - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Niger</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Niger from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Cheney told FBI he did not know who leaked Plame's identity</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/31/cheney.plame/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/31/cheney.plame/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Massive African lake could dry up, U.N. agency says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/15/lake.chad/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/15/lake.chad/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Up to 30 million people are facing "a humanitarian disaster" as one of Africa's biggest lakes shrinks, a United Nations agency warned Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>West Africa flooding affects 600,000, U.N. reports</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/08/west.africa.flooding/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/08/west.africa.flooding/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Torrential rains and flooding since June have affected 600,000 people in 16 West African nations, the United Nations reported Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>350,000 displaced by floods in West Africa</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/05/burkina.faso.floods/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/05/burkina.faso.floods/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 30 people were killed and 350,000 displaced when torrential rains soaked much of West Africa, the United Nations said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nigerian police: Thousands detained in raid on Islamic camp</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/16/nigeria.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/16/nigeria.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police in northern Nigeria on Saturday detained almost 4,000 members of an Islamic community, claiming the group posed a potential violent threat, the police commissioner in the Nigerian state of Niger told CNN.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kidnapped Briton feared killed by al Qaeda</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/03/uk.mali.alqaeda/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/03/uk.mali.alqaeda/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says there's "strong reason to believe" a British citizen has been killed by an al Qaeda cell in the west African nation of Mali.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Doctors target meningitis outbreak in Africa</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/africa.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/africa.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Doctors Without Borders has embarked on a massive vaccination campaign in three African countries to combat an outbreak of meningitis that has killed hundreds of people, the organization said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>African villages denounce female circumcision</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/15/niger.mutilation/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/15/niger.mutilation/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ten villages in western Niger have publicly denounced the practice of female genital mutilation, according to a UNICEF report.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Meningitis epidemic strikes Nigeria, Niger</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/28/africa.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/28/africa.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than 200 people have died of meningitis in the past week alone in Niger and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Canada: Two diplomats missing in Niger</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/16/canada.un.kidnap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/16/canada.un.kidnap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two Canadian diplomats have been reported missing in Niger, the Canadian government said Monday, adding that both men work for the United Nations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>5,000 Year-old Sahara Graves Found</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1833108,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1833108,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of
   flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>From WMD to energy</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/08/magazines/fortune/tech/WMD_to_energy_Heinrich.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/08/magazines/fortune/tech/WMD_to_energy_Heinrich.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Yellowcake uranium may be known to most of us as President Bush's justification to go to war in Iraq, but the remnants of Saddam Hussein's once-feared WMD program may soon be lighting up homes across the United States.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Desertification: How to stop the shifting sands</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/es.desertification/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/es.desertification/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When a 'Yellow Dragon' roars, Beijing listens. </description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Aid group to cut food ration to millions</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/22/food.program.cutback/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/22/food.program.cutback/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>World Vision, one of the world's largest humanitarian organizations, announced Tuesday that it cannot feed 1.5 million of the 7.5 million people it fed last year and made an urgent appeal for international donors to step in.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nigerian rebels seek help from Clooney, Carter</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/21/nigeria.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/21/nigeria.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A group of Nigerian rebels who wrote a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, stating that they attacked two oil pipelines Monday, have asked for former President Jimmy Carter and actor George Clooney to help solve issues in the oil-rich Niger-delta.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rally will be back says director</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/01/05/rally.dakar/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/01/05/rally.dakar/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Dakar Rally organizers have insisted that the event will be back in 2009, after it was called off this weekend because of terrorist threats.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Panel subpoenas Rice over Niger uranium claim</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/25/rice.subpoena/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/25/rice.subpoena/index.html</guid><description>A House committee Wednesday subpoenaed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to find out what she knew about the 2003 claim that Iraq sought uranium from the African country of Niger.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Sahara: Dry but never boring</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/03/16/sahara/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/03/16/sahara/index.html</guid><description>A wilderness of sun-baked plateaus, palm-fringed oases, and mesmerizing sand seas, the Sahara measures nearly 3.5 million square miles, and reaches into 10 countries. Of those, Niger and Libya arguably offer the most impressive scenery, while Morocco is attractive because of convenient flights, great cities like Marrakech, and the fact that U.S. citizens staying less than three months don't need visas.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>House Democrat asks Rice about 'fabricated Niger claim' </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/12/congress.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/12/congress.iraq/index.html</guid><description>The new chairman of a House investigative committee is demanding answers to questions he asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice nearly four years ago about President Bush's assertion that Iraq once sought uranium from Africa.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PROBLEM NO. 2: HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401350/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401350/index.htm</guid><description>THE BACKGROUND More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the ... </description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby jury resolves question, calls it a day</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/28/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/28/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Jurors in the criminal trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told the judge Wednesday that they had resolved a question about one of the charges.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Columnist testifies Rove confirmed Plame was CIA</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/12/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/12/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>The journalist who first revealed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame said in federal court Monday that two top government officials were his sources.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby prosecutors await judge's rulings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/04/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/04/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Prosecutors in the criminal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby plan to rest their case as soon as Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Former Bush spokesman contradicts Libby's timeline</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/29/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/29/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer testified Monday that Lewis "Scooter" Libby told him about a CIA operative three days before the date Libby claims he received the information from a reporter.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Problem no. 3: Hunger and malnutrition</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/24/magazines/business2/Prob3_HungerMalnutrution.biz2/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/24/magazines/business2/Prob3_HungerMalnutrution.biz2/index.htm</guid><description>The background: More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the developing world, especially in India and sub-Saharan Africa.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Subpoena challenged in CIA leak case</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/12/20/libby/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/12/20/libby/index.html</guid><description>Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson has filed a motion to quash the witness subpoena for him issued last week in the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial, arguing the defense has no right to call a witness whose testimony would not help it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The insider's guide to Norway</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/09/insider.norway/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/09/insider.norway/index.html</guid><description>Norway is the world's best place to live, according to the United Nations Human Development Index. Here's everything you'd want to know about the Scandinavian paradise.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>On this day in history ...</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/19/tbr.history/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/19/tbr.history/index.html</guid><description>1356: English defeat French at Poitiers in a landmark battle of the Hundred Years' War.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Outed CIA agent Plame adds Armitage to lawsuit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/13/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/13/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame has added Richard Armitage to her lawsuit over the 2003 leak that exposed her secret status with the agency to journalists, her lawyers said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nigerian wins 2006 African journalist award</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/16/journalists.awards/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/16/journalists.awards/index.html</guid><description>Nigerian journalist Shola Oshunkeye has been awarded the top prize at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2006 Awards ceremony.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Former CIA officer claims conspiracy outed her identity</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/14/cialeak.lawsuit/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/14/cialeak.lawsuit/index.html</guid><description>Former CIA officer Valerie Plame on Friday said she and her husband filed their lawsuit against top Bush administration officials "with heavy hearts" but at the same time "with a renewed sense of purpose."</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawyer: Rove won't be charged in CIA leak case</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/13/rove.cia/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/13/rove.cia/index.html</guid><description>White House senior adviser Karl Rove has been told by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that he will not be charged in the CIA leak case, according to Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The world at risk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/06/12/8379272/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/06/12/8379272/index.htm</guid><description>MAY 26, 2006 A look at hot spots, economic fault lines, and events that might have an impact on global risk.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anderson Cooper's journey</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/05/31/anderson.cooper/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/05/31/anderson.cooper/index.html</guid><description>The cover subtitle calls "Dispatches from the Edge" "a memoir of war, disasters and survival."</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 19:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby's lawyers hint at defense tactics</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Defense attorneys for Lewis "Scooter" Libby plan to call Karl Rove as a witness and challenge the credibility of a former diplomat at the center of the CIA leak investigation, the lawyers said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 23:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rove testifies again in CIA leak case</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, testified Wednesday for a fifth time before a grand jury in the CIA leak investigation, Rove's attorney said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Court documents: Libby testified that Bush OK'd intelligence leak</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide testified that President Bush authorized the release of parts of a classified report on Iraq to rebut criticism of the case for the 2003 invasion, federal prosecutors disclosed in documents released Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feel-good fashion in Africa</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/03/24/africa.fashion/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/03/24/africa.fashion/index.html</guid><description>Although the ethical consumer has long campaigned against sweatshop labor dependent on young children working long hours for a pittance, the definition of a principled purchase has widened to include the fabrics themselves.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kenyan family's cry: 'God has cursed us'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/03/09/btsc.koinange.kenya/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/03/09/btsc.koinange.kenya/index.html</guid><description>I've covered three droughts in the last six months in Africa.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nine abducted in Niger delta </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/02/18/nigeria.abductions/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/02/18/nigeria.abductions/index.html</guid><description>A Nigerian group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of nine foreign workers during its attack on an oil facility Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Obsessed with 16 words</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/19/uranium.novak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/19/uranium.novak/index.html</guid><description>The House International Relations Committee last Thursday voted 24 to 19 to send to the House floor, "without recommendation," a resolution requiring President Bush to turn over documents relating to 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union Address. That actually killed the resolution. But the dead can rise again in Congress, and this corpse will.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The face of famine</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/12/15/face.of.famine/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/12/15/face.of.famine/index.html</guid><description>"Aminu's dead." Charlie, my producer, tells me when he gets back from the intensive-care ward. Aminu was 4. Yesterday he seemed better. Yesterday was a long time ago.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: The crisis in Niger</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/18/niger.feedback/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/18/niger.feedback/index.html</guid><description>This summer, millions of people -- many of them children -- have struggled to survive a devastating famine in the land-locked, West African nation of Niger.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Inside and beyond Niger </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/15/niger.perspective/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/15/niger.perspective/index.html</guid><description>Four-year-old Aminu Yahaya lay alongside his mother in the makeshift hospital -- exhausted, his skin peeling, alarmingly thin, and fighting to survive.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Hungry season' preys on Niger's youngest</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/02/cooper.niger/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/02/cooper.niger/index.html</guid><description>In a small village in southern Niger, hundreds of mothers gather with their hungry children hoping somebody will help them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Donating to charity</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/29/pf/saving/willis_tips/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/29/pf/saving/willis_tips/index.htm</guid><description>Tens of thousands of children are going to starve to death in the West African Nation of Niger unless they get aid. In fact, 1.2 million people are starving. It's a crisis that could have been avoided, according to the United Nations. But it seems no one was listening to the warnings last year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Aid groups working to ease Niger crisis</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.aidgroups/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.aidgroups/index.html</guid><description>Urgent appeals have been made for help for famine-stricken Niger where more than one million people are at risk from starvation after a locust invasion worsened an already poor harvest. 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When someone in Washington makes that request and a journalist agrees to the deal, a blood oath has been signed, no matter how scurrilous or trivial the information involved.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rove problem</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/25/rove.problem.tm.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/25/rove.problem.tm.tm/index.html</guid><description>Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week. Reporters tell stories and trade secrets, and her life, once a state secret, had become one of the most widely told stories in years. As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush appears to shift course on CIA leak</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/18/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/18/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>President Bush appeared to backtrack Monday from his 2004 pledge to fire anyone involved in leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>White House clams up on CIA leak</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/12/cia.leaks/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/12/cia.leaks/index.html</guid><description>With a criminal probe heating up into who exposed an undercover CIA agent, the White House spokesman is fending off sharp questions about what role U.S. President George W. Bush's top political adviser may have played in the case.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gonzales: CIA leak probe moving forward</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/15/cia.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/15/cia.probe/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday he believes the investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative nearly two years ago is moving forward appropriately.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N.: Population to top 9 billion by 2050</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/02/24/un.population/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/02/24/un.population/index.html</guid><description>The world's population will rise from 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, according to a United Nations survey released Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil tumbles 3% on EIA report</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/economy/eia/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/economy/eia/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices dropped more than 3 percent on Wednesday after a U.S. government report showed a surprise increase in fuel stockpiles last week in the world's largest energy consumer.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Four die after Togo stadium crush</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/football/10/11/togo.crush/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/football/10/11/togo.crush/index.html</guid><description>Four people died and eight were injured in a stadium crush after Togo's World Cup qualifier with Mali, a government statement said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nigerian rebels threaten war</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/09/27/nigeria.rebels/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/09/27/nigeria.rebels/index.html</guid><description>The Nigerian rebel group fighting government troops in the oil-rich Niger delta has warned it will launch "all-out war on the Nigerian state" from October 1 and advised all oil companies to shut production by then.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fears of Africa polio epidemic</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/24/polio/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/24/polio/index.html</guid><description>The polio outbreak that originated in northern Nigeria continues to infect new countries and threatens to become an epidemic across west and central Africa, health officials say.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reporter faces jail over silence in CIA leak probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/09/leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/09/leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>A Time magazine reporter chose to fight a court order requiring him to testify in the Justice Department's probe into the leak of a CIA operative's name, while an NBC executive chose to cooperate, according to court documents and parties involved in the case.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Errant former ambassador</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/15/ambassador/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/15/ambassador/index.html</guid><description>Like Sherlock Holmes's dog that did not bark, the most remarkable aspect of last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report is what its Democratic members did not say.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Face Off</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/12/375868/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/12/375868/index.htm</guid><description>The Corporation, a new Canadian documentary (and Sundance winner) being released in the U.S. this summer, has come up with an interesting theory for why work sometimes seems crazy: If the corporati...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush interviewed in CIA leak probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/24/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/24/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>President Bush was interviewed Thursday morning by a special prosecutor investigating whether anyone in the administration disclosed the classified identity of a CIA officer, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush acknowledges talking to attorney over CIA leak probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/03/bush.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/03/bush.leak/index.html</guid><description>President Bush acknowledged Thursday that he has spoken to a private attorney about the investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush consults private attorney over CIA leak probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/02/bush.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/02/bush.leak/index.html</guid><description>President Bush has had "discussions" with a private attorney in connection with a federal grand jury investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative, a White House spokeswoman said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Americans killed in Nigeria ambush</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/04/24/nigeria.ambush/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/04/24/nigeria.ambush/index.html</guid><description>Two U.S. workers with the Chevron oil company and three Nigerian employees have been killed in an ambush in the volatile Niger delta region of Nigeria.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. backs Chad against extremists</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/03/11/us.chad/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/03/11/us.chad/index.html</guid><description>A small group of U.S. troops quietly helped Chad's military in a running battle this week against an Algerian Islamic group, U.S. sources said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Key facts: Libya sanctions</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/10/libya.sanctions.facts/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/10/libya.sanctions.facts/index.html</guid><description>The U.N. Security Council on September 12, 2003 lifted sanctions against Libya, triggering the release of up to $2.7 billion to the families of the 270 people killed in bombing of a Pan Am airline over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dakar drivers move to Burkina Faso</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/01/11/rally.dakar/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/01/11/rally.dakar/index.html</guid><description>Competitors in the suspended Dakar Rally have driven from Mali to neighboring Burkina Faso, where the race will restart on Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI seeks confidentiality waivers from Bush staffers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/01/02/cia.leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/01/02/cia.leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>FBI agents investigating the leak of the name of a CIA operative are asking senior Bush administration officials to waive confidentiality agreements they have with reporters, government sources said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2004 01:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Out of This World</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/18/332269/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/18/332269/index.htm</guid><description>Even the most alpha CEO needs to hand over the reins once in a while. For 2003, Mountain Travel Sobek asked nine of its top guides to choose their favorite places and take along a group. They're ca...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>