Other agencies including UNICEF and the WHO World Food Program are also helping aid efforts in Agadez.

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There are lots of people who are arriving, some are transferring to West Africa but (others) are remaining in Agadez some months.

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Called "Agadez" -- named after the largest town in northern Niger -- Bombino's album honors Tuareg culture, the hardships of youth and love.

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In Agadez, a regional capital to the southeast of Arlit, a truck carrying armed assailants and explosives detonated in front of the army barracks, Labo said.

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Both attacks -- at the army barracks in Agadez in central Niger and a Somair uranium mine in Arlit in northern Niger -- happened about 5 a.m.

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"I went back to Agadez and at the time in Agadez to have access to instruments or a place to play, we needed to be part of a political party, " he remembers.

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The U.S. military has been considering Agadez as a possible base to fly the surveillance drones it deployed to Niger earlier this year as part of a broader international effort to search for and fight al Qaeda and other Islamist guerrilla fighters in North and West Africa.

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