Jamhuriyar Nijar

Republic of Niger

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LIBERATED

August 3rd, 1960

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ESTABLISHED

December 18, 1958

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‘BEEN AROUND

 5th century BC (Sahel)

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SPEAKS

Official language: French

Native languages: Arabic, Buduma, Fulfulde, Gourmanchéma, Hausa, Kanuri, Zarma, Songhai, Tamasheq, Tassawaq, Tebu

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Niamey

-Capital

-Largest city

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APPROXIMATELY

24,112,753 national population

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UNITARY SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC

Government

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Costus Spectabilis

National flower

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DAMA GAZELLE

National animal 

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CURRENCY

WEST AFRICAN CFA FRANC (XOF)

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BORDERS

Libya (northeast) Chad (east) Nigeria (south) Benin and Burkina Faso (southwest) Mali (west) Algeria (northwest)

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12,900

Active army personnel

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SEASONS

hot, dry springs  heavy and humid summers  cool autumns  cool winters

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AREA

1,267,000 km (489,000 sq mi)

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LANDSCAPE

There are also large plains in the south and hills in the north. In the extreme south, there is a tropical climate near the edges of the Niger River Basin.

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MOUNTAINS

Aïr Mountains

 Part of the West Saharan montane xeric woodlands ecoregion, they rise to more than 1,800 m (5,900 ft) and extend over 84,000 km2 (32,000 sq mi). Lying in the midst of desert north of the 17th parallel, the Aïr plateau, with an average altitude between 500 and 900 m (1,600 and 3,000 ft), forms an island of Sahel climate which supports a wide variety of life, many pastoral and farming communities, and dramatic geological and archaeological sites. There are notable archaeological excavations in the region that illustrate the prehistoric past of this region.  The endangered painted hunting dog once existed in this region, but may now be extirpated due to human population pressures in this region.

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RIVERS

⒈ Niger River

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ASSETS

Export Agriculture

 Uranium Ore.

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NATURAL DISASTERS

Flooding

Landslides

Pollution

Deforestation

Overpopulation

Lowest Literacy Rate

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Hama Diori

“ Truly"  

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NICKNAMES

 Ny  River boy  Nee Big Bro  Jher-chan

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GENDER

Male

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SEXUALITY

Demisexual

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PHYSICAL AGE

19

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WEIGHT

 56kg

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HEIGHT

 163.8 cm  

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2; A camel that he rides from place to place and A stray sand cat that comes in his yard from time to time (Neko!Niger)

Ｒｅｃｕｒｒｉｎｇ Ｐｈｒａｓｅｓ 

⌜⌜Fofo⌟⌟ 

⌜⌜I see⌟⌟ 

⌜⌜How is the heat?⌟⌟ 

⌜⌜Salam-u-laikum⌟⌟ 

Ａｎｉｍｅ Ａｒｃｈｅｔｙｐｅ

 Dandere, Type A Oniichan

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EYES

Dark brown with a black tint

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FACE

Oval-shaped but high-cheekbone and with persistent dark circles under his eyes.

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HAIR

Dark brown, nearly black. Naturally coily. It always kept short and under his turban-style hat. 

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BUILD

Thin and bony but finely muscled and possessing muscle strength due to military influence

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POSTURE

Has a tendency to slouch when sitting but stands with a straight, military posture. Tends to have closed-off body language.

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GAIT

Takes smaller steps, Watch where he's heading.

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HEALTH ISSUES

Easily sick due to economy

 Suffers from mild osteoarthritis

 always hungry

 paranoia and anxiety

 depression

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ATTIRE

Typically wears a bobo that comes down to his ankles and is a whitish color. When he is on military duty, He wears a camo army uniform. On formal occasions requiring traditional attire, a long gown similar to the boubou. The rest of the time, he wears long pants and t-shirts or button-up shirts. Never bare-headed

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PROMINENT SCARS

 Has a faded scar on his cheek from the Battle of Kousséri

 Faded burns on his arms from attacks from Boko Haram

 Scars and cuts on his hand from overworking

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VOICE

Quiet and somewhat dry from underuse. Still a bit high due to being physically younger.

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ACCENT

He developed a France accent due to being raised by France

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Hokkaido dialect

GOOD HABITS

 Hardworking and honest

 Polite and respectful

 Peacekeeping

 Unfailingly loyal and protective.

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BAD HABITS

Workaholic

Bit of pushover

 Have separation anxiety

 Often gets dragged into other's battles

 Tends to be paranoid and timid

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STRANGE HABITS

 Hums while he works.

 Falls asleep standing up at times

 May comment on anything that he observes

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 loyal   protective  honest  hardworking    worrisome  focused  quiet  serious  insecure  modest   alert  indecisive 

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⌜⌜ A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. - Chinua Achebe ⌟⌟

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SUMMARY

It's common to see Niger working with his hands on a farm or in a market. Soft-spoken, he only speaks when spoken to. He does his best to aid his fellow nations

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His low HDI makes him feel like a failure, It still worries him that he is nothing more than a charity case to most of the bigger nations Particularly to his younger, more successful sister. With a desire to help his country, he is working several jobs like mining and farming.  

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He's also a seasoned haggler who can be stern when the situation calls for it, as in diplomatic deals to be taken seriously.  Although he is somewhat of a homebody, he is quite a host, treating his guests like kings. As soon as the issue of France comes up, his attitude stiffens

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LIKES

 Millet

 Gazelles

Brochettes

 Rain

 Beignets

 Peace

 Friendship

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DISLIKES

✗Be pitied

✗Fights

✗Noise

✗Having his name mispronounced

✗Being helpless

✗Libya

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FAVORITES

Place to be  Agadez

Food  Djerma Stew

Nation  Mali

Way to relax  Horse-Riding

Animal  Horses, Gazelle

Color  Orange

Time Period  Sahel Empire

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TALENTS

 horse racing  guitar  sorro wrestling poetry  artisan bargaining

 Typically, Niger's skills are agricultural and animal husbandry based due to his rural economy. Because it is an entrenched part of his culture, he is also talented with handcrafts; usually, he makes 6 textiles in a day. Despite his mild personality, he knows how to bargain quite well. Knowing every tactic. Although he tries to get involved with sport, because of his budget, he can only engage in local activities such as horse racing and soro wrestling. He plays guitar and writes poetry in his free time. 

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HOBBIES

 music  Football  shooting  horse riding 

 He sometimes plays football with Madagascar. He takes every opportunity to ride a horse and camel. Due to his history as a military junta, he is decent at shooting. During festivals, he plays the guitar and sings.

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Nigeria

His younger sister and neighbor. After growing up apart, they got along well when they met. Nige tries to be her doting older brother, but to no avail (for example, getting wrongly mistaken as a younger brother). Although he is proud of his sister's accomplishments, he feels that he failed as an older brother.

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France

A string of guilt is still attached to the massacre of his people by the French soldiers and being viewed by others as a cause for a stop. France is his main export market and import market. Cooking was another skill he acquired in France. During WWII, Niger remained loyal to France. Today, they have a professional relationship, but Niger has difficulty understanding France sometimes

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Tuareg

Niger still sees Tuareg as a part of him... A really rebellious part of him

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Benin

Due to their former status as French subjects, they were close friends for many years. Despite getting along, Niger is wary of Benin's adventures in the Soviet Union

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Chad

A good friend of his, They were both under France's rule. Chad helped him out with terrorists and is the Yang to his Yin.

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United States of America

The default backup outsider when France isn't concerned, They have a decent relationship and besides the whole 9/11 incident, they remained loyal to each other and train together. Niger holds a slight admiration for America since he too was just a colony once

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Senegal

Senegal was the ex-wife of his big sister. Mali and Senegal split up, but Senegal still seems to treat him as a little brother

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China

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 Their political relationship was smooth and they had close exchanges at all levels. China retracted its friendship with Niger for his efforts to befriend Taiwan and support India during the Indo-China war. Their relationship has improved a bit but Niger is still wary

India

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Another ally, They had a steady friendship despite the fact that it struck a nerve with China. India helped him out with getting back on track, They get together for International Day of Yoga

Mali

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His older sister, She was under her care as a child

 Italy

Italy sent him 470 Italian soldiers would be deployed to Niger in an effort to mitigate the European migrant crisis. Niger is friendly toward him but is unnerved by his "shamelessness" 

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Libya

Everything has been tense around them

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Pakistan

Ancestors: Tichitt, Djenné-Djenno, Bura culture, Songhai

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⌜⌜ Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. - Sun Tzu ⌟⌟

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EARLY INHABITANTS

Stone tools, evidence of a Paleolithic culture, indicate the presence

of humans more than 60,000 years ago in the Air, Ténéré, Djado, and Kuwar regions. The stone tools, including axes, oval disks used for cutting and scraping, and stone knives, were produced by a Neolithic

Saharan culture that domesticated bulls and herded cattle--an activity that is still practiced today by the different nomadic groups of Niger.

Artists of the Neolithic Saharan culture probably drew the numerous rock paintings that are often found north of Agadez.

THE SAVANNAH KINGDUMS 

THE ZAGHAWA KINGDOM was located around the Chad Basin from A.D. 700 to 1100 and occupied the North Kanem region, northeast of Lake Chad. The term Zaghawa does not refer to a specific culture or period but to the pre-Islamic black inhabitants of the region. The Zaghawa were the first to acquire the skill to cast iron, make crafts, and provide services to the nomadic and sedentary groups around Kanem. They relied on agriculture, fishing, and making crafts for a living, and in a later period, they engaged in international trade, which included slaves, with the Muslim states of North Africa and the Middle East. An economic transformation led to the rise of the Kanem Empire after the 12th century. 

THE HABASHA KINGDOM was predominantly made out of Chadic speakers, who lived on the river valleys around the same time as the Zaghawa. Similar to the Zaghawa, the Habasha traded and sold their agricultural produce as well as other crafts and were not just subsistence farmers. Most were cattle herders and salt traders. The Habasha did not have territorial aspirations.

SILENT AUCTION 

Southern Niger was part of west Sudan when gold was traded between the Muslim and Sudanese traders. Although the Muslim traders were involved in the gold trade, their Sudanese counterparts supplied them with little information about the location of the gold mines. Muslim geographers used to say that gold grew in the sand of Sudan as carrots did. 

The Sudanese had an equally unusual trading relationship with their gold suppliers from the gold-producing center in the south of Niger. Known as the silent auction, this method of barter illustrated their peculiar trading customs. The Sudanese traders would place their merchandise, mainly salt bars from the Sahara, in piles on the bank of the river and then retreat. 

Afterward the local people would appear with their gold and would place some gold next to each pile of merchandise and then withdraw. The traders would return to the riverbank and take the gold if the amount placed against each pile satisfied them. They would then disappear. The local people would emerge from their hiding places and go to the riverbank to collect the merchandise they had bought.

As the Zaghawa kingdom expanded to the west, the Habasha kingdom contracted into the kingdoms of Gobir and Katsina. As the Mbau tribe on the southern border developed, the Habasha joined them to form what was later known as the Mbau kingdom. The term Mbau refers to the original inhabitants of the savannah region between Niger and Nigeria. Although traces of their history are found today in the numerous village names, their language is now almost extinct. The Mbau people were much feared for their raids.

Toward the seventh-century A.D.., the first Songhai and Kanem states appeared in the western and the eastern parts of Niger, respectively. From the core of Mali, the Songhai Empire expanded its territory along the Niger



THE SONGHAI EMPIRE was one of the greatest empires of West Africa. Its dominance reached a peak when Sonni Ali took power and lasted more than 100 years. 

The dominant individuals of the Songhai were the Sorko fishermen. Known as the masters of waters, the Sorko navigated the waters of Niger River from Dendi, reaching places north of Tillabéry. 

A cohesive and important political organization was born among them, resulting in the first Songhai dynasty known as the Dya. By the eighth century A.D., increased economic relations with the Kharedjite Tahert state in western Algeria strengthened the Songhai kingdom. 

The city of Gao became the commercial center and the residence of the Songhai rulers. Kukiya, southeast of Gao, remained the ancestral capital, where festivals and royal celebrations took place.



Around the mid-12th century the Empire of Mali attempted to extend its rule over all Saharan trade route terminals. However, as a remote province, Songhai attempted to gain its independence amid periods of weakness in Mali. Under the leadership of Ali Kolon, the new dynasty of the Sonni was founded.

 But it was not until the beginning of the 15th century that the Songhai Empire started to build its military power and begin expansion under the rule of Sonni Ali the Great (1464-92). 

Spreading westward, it conquered Timbuktu in 1469 and Jene in 1473. As the Empire of Mali retreated south of the Niger Delta, having lost its Sahelian territory, the Songhai Empire, during the rule of Askia Muhammad (1493–1528), took over additional provinces that had been part of Mali. It also conquered the Berber city of Agadez and the Hausa states on the southern border of today's Niger. The end of the 15th century saw the destruction of the Songhai Empire when the North African empire of Morocco conquered its territory.



River, while the Kanem Empire concentrated its rule around Lake Chad and extended its conquest north to the Fezzan in Libya. In between the two empires, smaller states, such as the Hausa states, emerged. Around A.D. 1000, an increase in economic relations with North Africa via the Air region led to migrations of Tuareg from Libya and Algeria toward the Air and adjacent regions. At this time, both the Songhai and Kanem empires adopted Islam as their religion. Meanwhile, the Hausa, who previously lived in the north, gradually moved south.

THE EMPIRE OF BORNU benefited greatly from the collapse of the Kanem Empire. The latter empire fell due to the lack of resources, royal rivalry, and internal conflicts, which erupted in the mid-13th century. Even before the collapse of Kanem, parts of Bornu had become independent, especially after the Bornu economy started to benefit from the direct trans-Saharan trade route to North Africa. In the 14th century, when the Suffewa rulers started to encounter opposition from the Bulala, a rival dynasty, the Suffewa rulers and their followers left Kanem and headed toward Bornu, where they had long before placed lords.

Even though the Suffewa fled from Kanem, their conflict with the Bulala continued for many years. The Suffewa later solved their internal problems and regained strength and security from 1465 to 1497 under the rule of Ali Dunama, also called Ghaji "the Younger." He was able to resolve the struggle for the throne between the different branches of the Suffewa. In addition, Ali Ghaji ended the threat of the Bulala once and for all and laid the foundation of a new and powerful Suffewa Mais dynasty, with its capital at Ngazargamu. The Suffewa in Bornu saw in Islam a powerful means of strengthening their authority over the Bomu lands. As the different groups accepted Islam, stability was restored.

In the 16th century the region that was to become Niger was greatly influenced by the Songhai and Bornu empires. The Bornu Empire reached its apex under the rule of Idris Alauma (1564-76). The acme of Songhai rule occurred during the reign of Askia Mohammed (1493--1528). In 1498 Askia Mohammed went on a pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca. On completing his pilgrimage to Mecca, he received the two honored titles-- al Hajj and the Caliph of the Western Sudan-which increased his support among the Songhai Muslims and helped consolidate his rule. The Songhal Empire was destroyed by Moroccans who came to search for the gold of Sudanic Africa, and who wanted to control the trade routes. The Battle of Tondibi in 1591 was a heavy loss for the Songhai; it was their

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Marukaite Chikyuu

Fofo Papa, can we have Lemu-hari!

Fofo Mamma, Fofo Mamma!

I can't get the taste of that millet porridge

We ate long ago out of my head!

Draw a circle, that's the Earth!

Draw a circle, that's the Earth!

Draw a circle, that's the Earth!

I'm Niger!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

Look at it, that’s Earth!

Or could it be the Earth?

I'm Niger!

Ah! You can see the

Magnificent world with just one stroke

Let's wrap the world in a hand-weavened blanket!

("Another drought passed by, It was supposed to be rain season")

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

I'm Niger!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

Suddenly, there’s the Earth!

Lie on your back, there's the Earth!

I'm Niger!

Ah, with just some boiling,

A recipe that will make you cry with joy

("The kilishi is almost ready.")

The sun continues to beat down!

Hey, hey, ƙane, pass me the massa!

While you're at it, 'yar'uwar, please fry it!

Oi, oi, kakan, I am at peace.

Fofo, Fofo (is that for me?)

Fofo Papa, can we have Lemu-hari!

Fofo Mamma, Fofo Mamma!

I can't get the taste of that millet porridge

We ate long ago out of my head!

Even as the lowest HDI, Even I can flourish!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

Draw a circle, that’s the Earth!

I'm Niger!

Ah! You can see the

Fabulous world with just one stroke

The land once boomed with business and fauna

Niger!

Ah, throughout the world,

Sleeps the recipe of happiness

The land is shaky and ever changing!

But I'll do my best

Hatafutte Parade

In my right hand is a fabric!

In my left hand is brochettes~!

Wave your flag, wave your flag, it's a daga tuta parade!

Towards the enchanting world, mu tafi!

Take our hands, make a circle, spin, and it's the world

With a rainy season, I'm in the best condition!

kore, fari, lemo mai zaƙi make my tricolor

Even when dragged down, I must do my best

He-ta-li-a

"Ugh, I'm always forgotten...

The only time I'm mentioned is with Nigeria

Or with that other word"

Another great day, it's a daga tuta parade

Sound your instruments, it's time to march

If everyone at one-two makes the ensemble, the one and only song will be complete

Playing the guitar is me, Niger~!!

"But, I need to hurry and get back to work~"

The River flows through us all

Bissap will wash all the strife away

As the world continues to shift and shake, I still stay in place

(Tashi! Nijar! Tashi!

Tashi! Nijar! Tashi!)

Tashi! Nijar! Tashi! Even a  barren desert

Tashi! Nijar! Tashi! Can be home to a gold

Tashi! Nijar! Tashi! The loud cheers keep growing passionate

Tashi! Nijar! Tashi! 

"It's fine, I'm sure I can manage on his own."

Wave your flag, wave your flag, it's a flag-waving parade!

This melody is universal♪

The 5 continents and the 7 seas

At this energetic tempo, they traverse each other grandly!

This is the Cure Salee that will continue towards tomorrow!

Slip through the zipper to dreams!

kore, fari, lemo mai zaƙi make my tricolor

Even when dragged down, I must do my best

He-ta-li-a

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Hatafutte Parade

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