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Over US $4.2 million for school supplies

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    Niger's government has set aside about US $4.2 million for the purchase of school supplies, including textbooks, news organisations reported. "Niger is one of the very few African countries which still provide books and other supplies to their pupils in spite of the country's poverty," the Pan-African News Agency (PANA) quoted the minister of primary education, Ibrahim Ari, as saying last week. He said, however, that the government would soon ask parents to contribute significantly to the purchase of school supplies.

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