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thoughts with others Not until 1993, 33 years after independence
from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A
1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the
north. Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by the creation of a
National Reconciliation Council that effected a transition to
civilian rule by December 1999. Niger is one of the poorest
countries in the world with minimal government services and
insufficient funds to develop its resource base. The largely
agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted
by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa. 13
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