Related Clues:

• Niamey is its capital
• Egypt's neighbor
• Lawson wanting a new direction, finally, for the country
• African OPEC member
• Splitter in 2011 headlines
• Landlocked African land
• African state and river
• 2011 civil war setting
• Ulster Romeo holds over, for example, African flower
• Land that's mostly Sahara Desert
• Africa's third-largest country
• Country that split in two in 2011
• Where Idris was king
• Benghazi's land
• Land by Lake Chad