14/04/2013
Niger rapidly emerges as a key U.S. partner in anti-terrorism fight in Africa
pNIAMEY, Niger ? As the Obama administration expands its counterterrorism operations in Africa, this country is rapidly emerging as a key U.S. partner./ppPresident Mahamadou Issoufou was elected in a free and fair vote two years ago and wins praise in Washington as a model democrat. But on a wall of the presidential palace in the capital of Niamey, framed photos of his predecessors ? a succession of glum-faced military dictators and deposed civilians ? illustrate the West African country?s volatile history since it won independence from France in 1960./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/niger-rapidly-emerging-as-a-key-us-partner/2013/04/14/3d3b260c-a38c-11e2-ac00-8ef7caef5e00_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2ab2992e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fniger-rapidly-emerging-as-a-key-us-partner%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F3d3b260c-a38c-11e2-ac00-8ef7caef5e00_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Niger+rapidly+emerges+as+a+key+U.S.+partner+in+anti-terrorism+fight+in+Africa" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fniger-rapidly-emerging-as-a-key-us-partner%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F3d3b260c-a38c-11e2-ac00-8ef7caef5e00_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Niger+rapidly+emerges+as+a+key+U.S.+partner+in+anti-terrorism+fight+in+Africa" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fniger-rapidly-emerging-as-a-key-us-partner%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F3d3b260c-a38c-11e2-ac00-8ef7caef5e00_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Niger+rapidly+emerges+as+a+key+U.S.+partner+in+anti-terrorism+fight+in+Africa" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fniger-rapidly-emerging-as-a-key-us-partner%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F3d3b260c-a38c-11e2-ac00-8ef7caef5e00_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Niger+rapidly+emerges+as+a+key+U.S.+partner+in+anti-terrorism+fight+in+Africa" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fnational-security%2Fniger-rapidly-emerging-as-a-key-us-partner%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F3d3b260c-a38c-11e2-ac00-8ef7caef5e00_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Niger+rapidly+emerges+as+a+key+U.S.+partner+in+anti-terrorism+fight+in+Africa" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/163323192210/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2ab2992e/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/163323192210/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2ab2992e/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/163323192210/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2ab2992e/a2t.img" border="0"/
