Agence France-Presse: A summit of West African states met on Wednesday aiming to save the region’s fast-shrinking Niger River from drying up by approving a 5.5 billion-euro plan. The leaders of Benin, Mali, Niger and Chad and representatives from five other neighbouring countries attended the eighth summit of the Niger Basin Authority (ABN), which started on Wednesday morning in Niger’s capital Niamey. In his opening speech, Niger’s president Mamadou Tandja expressed his concern over the drastic …