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Floods Ravage Rice Production in Niger's Diffa Region

Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said. Nearly 3,000 tons of rice worth 717 million CFA francs (more than one million euros, $1.13 million) have been lost as a result, Governor Mahamadou Bakabe said on state television late Sunday. Grain deficits this year have already threatened food security for thousands of small farmers in Diffa,...


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