Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Niger | 6th World Water Forum

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15 March 2012, updated on 20 December 2017.

Issoufou Issaka, Minister for Water and Environment, Niger, was formerly National Director for Water and Secretary General of the Ministry for Water.

Niger has not yet achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for access to drinking water and aims to do its utmost to reach it by 2015.

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