The case of Nigerois fleeing from Libya to economic hardship and potential humanitarian crisis in Niger is further evidence of the imprudence and myopic nature of the Libyan war.
He said they were in contact with Nigerois authorities.
She said that Nigerois officials had been strongly urged "to detain those members of the regime who may be subject to prosecution, to ensure that they confiscate any weapons that are found and to ensure that any state property of the government of Libya — money, jewels, etc. — also be impounded so that it can be returned to the Libyan people".
The two were found dead after a rescue attempt by Nigerois and French forces.
Rank-and-file rebels said that they were disappointed by the escape of senior officials, like Mansour Dhao, Colonel Qaddafi's security chief, who was blamed by many Tripoli residents for the crackdown there and was said by a Nigerois official to be in the convoy.
A further 50,000 Nigerois are still in Ivory Coast, but 21,500 are fleeing from Libya, and another 30,000 are waiting to get out of the north African state.
He held a series of overseas posts, including military attaché to the Nigerois embassy in Paris (1986 87), ambassador to Paris (1988 90), and ambassador to Algeria (1990 92), before returning to Niger in 1992 to become defense adviser to Amadou Cheiffou, the transitional prime minister.
I thought it was too bad Bouchara didn't need me, too bad she had a caring and intact family, because if her family wasn't so loving, or if she were one of the neglected or orphaned Nigerois children I had seen so often in the newspaper, then maybe I could adopt her.
There is nothing Nigerois would not do to help a loved one, a neighbor, even a stranger.
Dirkou has even begun to draw young Nigerois like Idrissa Ismail, 19, from Tahoua, 500 miles away.
