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Uranium-transports targetted by Touareg tribesman in Niger – but what do they do with it?

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Original Post Date: 2008-03-14 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: JoAn

Submitted by Adriana Stuijt:

14/03/2008 -Niamey, Niger. – Touareg gunmen have killed one civilian and wounded another in an attack on a French company’s lorry used for transporting uranium from north Niger to a port in Benin, authorities in the Agadez region said on Friday.

An armed group on Wednesday ambushed the truck – owned by the Niger National Transport Company (SNTN) – on the road to Arlit, where French nuclear giant Areva has been mining uranium for four decades.

The attack was the first since Tuareg rebels of the Movement of Nigeriens for Justice (MNJ), led by Rhissa Ag Boula, warned in January that they planned to start a “battle for uranium” targetting Areva facilities and property.

Ag Boula told a French newsweekly that his forces ‘wanted to prevent the opening of new uranium quarries in the arid desert north of Niger and would attack trucks’ on the road to Cotonou, Benin’s port and economic capital.
It’s not known what the Touaregs were planning to do with the hijacked loads.

Areva plans to open a new site at Imouraren, in the heart of Tuareg territory, and responded to the MNJ threat by declaring itself “nobody’s enemy” and a company that “values the stability of the country”.
The government of President Mamadou Tandja has extended until May a state of alert in the north of Niger, giving the security forces increased powers to crack down on the MNJ.

It dismisses the movement as “bandits” and drug traffickers.

On Monday, with Libyan mediation, the MNJ marked the first anniversary of its uprising by freeing 24 soldiers and a district official it had held hostage for several months in the north.

Though the government refuses negotiations, it declared that the release of the 25 men was a sign of improved prospects for peace with the movement, which is still officially reported to be holding six soldiers.

The MNJ is a splinter faction from the main Tuareg groups — which signed a 1995 agreement with the government to end a first rebellion.

The Tuareg are independent nomadic tribes who roamed the Sahara for many centuries, in fact they already traded slaves with the Romans long before nation-states were forced in Africa.

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