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Nomads look on as hungry cattle are fed in a local market in Dakoro, Niger. Six aid group employees were abducted from the guesthouse where they were sleeping in a central Niger town, an眼 witness and the provincial governor said.
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AFRICA
Aid workers abducted from Nigerien house
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NIAMEY, Niger — Six aid group employees were abducted from the guesthouse in a central Niger town, officials and witnesses said Monday.
Men in two Toyota pickup trucks pulled up to a guesthouse in the town of Dakoro late Sunday and seized five Nigeriens and a worker from Chad, said Sidi Mohamed, the governor of the Maradi region.
Local authorities have mounted a search operation, and they say they have surrounded the abductors in an area more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Dakoro.
"Presently, they are in Tassara, in that zone over there. They are encircled. They wanted to drive toward Mali — it seems obvious
that these were elements of AQIM," said the Prefect of Bermo, Idrissa Hassane, using the acronym for Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the local affiliate of al-Qaida. "I am hopeful that we will be able to catch them."
All six Africans work for the aid group "Bien-Atre de la femme et de 'Enfant au Niger," or "Well-Being of the Mother and Child of Niger," known by its French acronym of BEFEN. The Niamey-based aid group has about 250 local employees, around 100 of which are based in Dakoro where they run a clinic for severely malnourished children, said the group's national coordinator Dr. Sayadi Sani.
Dakoro has become a hub for international aid workers, including organizations like CARE
International and Oxfam, which use Dakoro as a base to carry out projects in the grasslands that extend to the north, home to the dwindling nomadic communities who still live off of their herds of camels and cows.
Mohamed, the governor of the Maradi region which includes Dakoro, said the abductors were likely looking for foreign national.
CARIBBEAN Military tribunal for
9-11 defendants continues
But the apparent cooperation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has said he masterminded the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, and four codefendants did little to speed up proceedings that have stuck in a legal and political morass for years.
9-11 defenders continues
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL, BASE,
Cuba — Five Guantanamo prisoners
charged in the Sept. 11 attacks
returned before a military tribunal
Monday, forgoing the protest that turned
their last appearance into an unlyl
13-hour spectacle.
Prosecutors and lawyers spent hours arguing the most preliminary of issues, including whether the defendants have to be in court at all, with one attorney saying the hearings may dredge up bad memories of their harsh treatment in CIA detention.
"I don't want to be subjected to this procedure that transports me here, brings up memories, brings up emotions of things that happened to me," said Jim Harrington, who represents Ramzi Binalshih, accused of helping to provide support to the hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
The five men sat quietly at the defense tables under the watchful eyes of military guards and several 9/11 family members at the U.S. base in Cuba. Mohammed, his beard dyed a rust color with henna, seriously read legal papers. Two others responded politely to the judge when asked.
All seemed to cooperate with their attorneys in a specially designed hightech courtroom that allows the government to muffle sounds so spectators behind a glass wall cannot hear classified information.
The orderly scene was in stark contrast to their arraignment in May on charges that include terrorism and murder.
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ASIA
25 primate species reported to be near extinction
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A Tonkin snub-nosed monkey sits on the ground at an unknown location.
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NEW DELHI — Twenty-five species of monkeys, langurs, lemurs and gorillas are on the brink of extinction and need global action to protect them from increasing deforestation and illegal trafficking, researchers said Monday.
listed as most threatened.
Six of the severely threatened species live in the island nation of Madagascar, off southeast Africa. Five more from mainland Africa, five from South America and nine species in Asia are among those
The report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature was released at the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity being held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
Primates, mankind's closest living relatives, contribute to the ecosystem by dispersing seeds and maintaining forest diversity.
Conservation efforts have helped several species of primates that are no longer listed as endangered, said the report, prepared every two
years by some of the world's leading primate experts.
The report, which counts species and subspecies of primates across the world, noted that Madagascar's lemurs are severely threatened by habitat destruction and illegal hunting, which has accelerated dramatically since the change of power in the country in 2009.
Among the most severely hit was the northern sportive lemur, with only 19 known individuals left in the wild in Madagascar.
"Lemurs are now one of the
world's most endangered groups of mammals, after more than three years of political crisis and a lack of effective enforcement in their home country, Madagascar," said Christoph Schwitzer of the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation, one of the groups involved in the study.
"A similar crisis is happening in Southeast Asia, where trade in wildlife is bringing many primates very close to extinction," Schwitzer said.
633 types of primates are in danger of becoming extinct because of human activity such as the burning and clearing of tropical forests, the hunting of primates for food and the illegal wildlife trade.
More than half of the world's
While the situation appears dire for some species, wildlife researchers say conservation efforts are beginning to pay off, with several primates being removed from the list, now in its seventh edition.
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