Libya says Niger has extradited Moammar Gaddafi’s son al-Saadi, who fled as his father’s regime crumbled in 2011 and was under house arrest in the desert West African nation ever since.

THE president of Niger, the world’s second-poorest country, denies claims of famine in his country.

Niger’s president played down the food crisis ravaging his desert nation, saying that people in the impoverished West African country “look well-fed”.