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Sakaraara, Namari-goungou, and others and managed to gather around 1200 warriors. The leaders of the allied villages began to buy horses: the great settling of accounts with the white men was thus actively prepared. Imaginative, Morou cut the telegraph line Niamey-Tera and the wire thus obtained was used to make arrows. Then, as if he had not already provoked the French enough, during the night of
January 9-10th, 1906, he had the French Lieutenant Fabre -who went down towards Niamey by the river- murdered, and looted his boat. Summoned to Niamey to justify the interruption of the telegraph line, Morou refused to go. A confrontation became thus inevitable.
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Boubon is one of the major pottery centers of Niger even though there is no large scale or centralized production: pottery is made by women in individual households. The pots are sold on the large and colourful weekly market on
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on the island in the river facing Boubon, with a restaurant, a pool, and cabins to stay for the night. Mainly expatriates from Niamey came here, crossing to the island by pirogue. But it has been closed for a number of years and it now looks abandoned and derelict.
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and as a consequence the village was burned down by the French in 1906. The story goes as follows:
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