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African country that became the center of a supposedly racist joke about being named after the Niger River

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"On the war front, hundreds were killed this week in many separate incidents in places such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mozambique, South Sudan, Niger, and the Congo."
News of the Week · dubtonn · ↑248 · 2020-08-15
"Was hanging out at a house party with a few folks from my program, and some worldly scholar brought up the conflict in Niger. The person he was talking to was like "oh, right Nigeria", and the scholar corrected him and pointed out they were in fact two different countries. Misjudging my crowd, I blu"
Made supposedly racist joke at MBA meetup. Am I screwed? · u/Noob_saibot2 · ↑147 · 2023-09-01
"as compared to 4.6 in sub-Saharan Africa (with countries such as Niger and Chad at TFR of 6)"
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