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Posted by Yahoo! News: World News at 4 August , 2009

Soldiers guard a school serving as a polling station in a constitutional referendum that would keep President Mamadou Tandja in power, in Niamey, Niger Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. The president of uranium-rich Niger pushed forward Tuesday with a highly controversial referendum on a new constitution that would remove term-limits and grant him another three years in office - this time with increased powers.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - Bolstered by lucrative new uranium and oil projects, Niger's president plowed ahead Tuesday with a referendum likely to extend his rule for years past the constitutional limit and grant him what critics say are near-totalitarian powers.


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