The list of misspellings and lazy deadline-induced must-have-story-now inaccuracies is stunning…. all a repeat of Mamdani’s 999 mistakes when writing about Darfur….

The latest … OK maybe was just some kid who didn’t know there are actually two countries with very similar names, Nigeria and Niger…

“In the long term, France has interests in securing resources in the Sahel – particularly oil and uranium, which the French energy company Areva has been extracting for decades in neighboring Nigeria,” said Sold.

via The interests behind France’s intervention in Mali | World | DW.DE | 16.01.2013.