Reviving Niger’s tourist industry as it emerges from a period of rebellion was never going to be easy. Three years of Tuareg insurgency in the north of the country bought tourism to this once popular destination to a halt. And just as the worst seemed to be coming to an end, Niger’s president, Mamadou Tandja, was arrested by the military in Niamey, on the very same day journalists and tour operators had gathered in the capital to celebrate the return to more peaceful times.
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With his beard, salt and pepper hair, shorts and t-shirt - strolling on Kribi beach in southern Cameroon - Eko Roosevelt looks like your average tourist. But walk in his footsteps for a while and you begin to understand the bonds that tie this 61-year old with the sea front where he was born and raised.
Lancement : Six thousand people, an annual budget of one billion dollars and an apparently impossible mission: helping over 32 million people in 110 countries. But that’s all in a day’s work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - an organisation founded in 1950 to serve the world’s uprooted populations displaced by conflict and natural disasters.
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She hasn’t forgotten anything she saw and heard in the chaos and distress of the refugee camps in Africa. In 1995, Aminata Gueye was in Bukavu, eastern Congo, home to over a million Hutu refugees fleeing Rwanda with neither food nor water.
Since 2005, Niger has been paying close attention to its handicrafts sector – a cottage industry that creates hundreds of jobs and earns millions CFA francs for the state. Niger’s women often work in regions far from the capital – fortunately they have access to innovative loans to buy raw materials and attend training programmes.
