Niger’s mine war
The world’s desperate need for nuclear power plant energy means a sound future for uranium mined in Niger. But the international corporations that have won concessions to remove it are careless of the land and its people, who are fighting back.
The Nigerien Movement for Justice (NMJ) , which is mostly a Tuareg organisation, warned in a recent press release: “If armed struggle is the only way to make ourselves heard, then that is the way forward.” Twelve years after the 24 April 1995 peace (…)
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