French help Niger to kill last jihadist bombers

r uranium mine, army base Suicide bombers target French-run uranium mine in Arlit, military barracks in Agadez on Thursday; surviving attacker takes soldiers hostage, authorities negotiating release Posted On Friday, May 24, 2013 at 09:09:39 AM A ...

NIAMEY, Niger - Suicide bombers struck a mine run by French nuclear group Areva and a military barracks in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that underline the widening threat posed by Islamist militants ...

Niger's government spokesman told The Associated Press that the jihadists who attacked a military installation in the town of Agadez on Thursday had never taken any hostages, unlike their earlier statements. Spokesman Morou Amadou said the government had ...

The jihadist group led by Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar that claimed twin suicide car bombings in Niger that killed at least 20 people threatened today to launch further attacks in the country. "We will launch further operations" in Niger, the group ...

Niamey, Niger (CNN) -- An Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's deadly attacks on an army barracks and a uranium mine in Niger, saying they were in response to Niger's cooperation with France in a "war against Sharia," ...

French nuclear group Areva, the world's second-largest uranium producer whose mine in northern Niger was hit by a car bomb on Thursday, extracts more than a third of its mineral in the impoverished west African country.Areva has been present in ...

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Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabery Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees. Among the sick are 31 Malian refugees who are living in Tabareybarey and Mangaize camps near the Mali border, according ...