Le Sahel
Le Sahel is Niger's state-owned daily newspaper, published in Niamey by the national publishing office ONEP together with its weekend edition Sahel Dimanche. As the government's paper of record, it covers official activity, national politics, development, the economy and culture, and its website carries the daily's articles and archives online.
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Le Sahel is positioned toward the editorial center of Niger's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Niger outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Le Sahel beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.
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