Two connections Taxis Car bombs explode at the uranium mine in Arlit and Agadez barracks in Niger.
A terrorist group expelled from Mali in January now impacting on France in Niger
Un grupo terrorista expulsado de Malí en enero golpea ahora a Francia en Níger
Dos cohes-bomba estallan ante la mina de uranio de Arlit y un cuartel en Agadez.
Los atentados del MUYAO causan más de veinte muertos y decenas de heridos
Atacar Malí para salvar Níger
Ignacio Cembrero Madrid 23 MAY 2013 - 19:49 CET
Hubo también más de 60 heridos.
A terrorist group expelled from Mali in January now impacting on France in Niger
Two connections Taxis Car bombs explode at the uranium mine in Arlit and Agadez barracks.
The Muyao attacks cause more than twenty dead and dozens injured
Attack Mali to save Niger
Ignacio Cembrero Madrid 23 MAY 2013 - 19:49 CET
Terrorism in the Sahel function as communicating vessels. France evicted in January, to Al Qaeda and related groups in northern Mali, but have reappeared Thursday in neighboring Niger to hit French interests and paralyze large Somair uranium mine.
Niger had already suffered the scourge of terrorism, but never attacks like the two that have now cost the lives of 23 people, mostly young military Niger Agadez a barracks and an employee of Areva in Arlit, where the French multinational exploits Somair mine, who was paralyzed. "It is badly damaged," said Marou Amadou, Niger's government spokesman to the station France-Inter. There were also more than 60 wounded.
The double explosion of two car bombs in Agadez and Arlit, which was followed by a shooting that killed three assailants, was claimed by the Movement for the Unity of Jihad in West Africa (Muyao), a terrorist group that is released in October 2011, when kidnapping in Tindouf (southwestern Algeria) to two Spanish aid workers and an Italian, and released.
The attack was directed "against the enemies of Islam in Niger," said Walid Abu Sahraoui, spokesman Muyao to what French President François Hollande, responded by promising to protect the interests of their country and cooperate with the President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, to "fight against terrorism".
Paris just has economic interests in Mali, which intervened militarily, but possesses in Niger. Through Areva, in which the French state owns 80%, France operates two major uranium mines in Niger, the Arlit, in which it owns 63%, and that of Akokan, with 34%. In of Inmouraren, where production has not yet started, holds 56%.
Nigerien mines today is removed 8% of global uranium production, but when the full performances Imouraren Niger in second place among the world's producers of that mineral. France, the world's nuclear-armed country, "imports all the uranium consumed and more than 30%, some years was nearly 40%, comes from Niger," said Jesus Garcia-Luengos, researcher in the area of Natural Resources of the University Autónoma de Madrid.
Areva reinforced its security in Niger in September 2010 after the kidnapping by Al Qaeda in Arlit, seven employees of the multinational and one of its subsidiaries, five of them French. Four months later, two French terrorists arrested by Niamey were shot when French elite forces tried to rescue them.
When, four months ago, Paris Serval operation triggers ejection of terrorists in northern Mali also sent a handful of special forces soldiers to protect the uranium in Niger. Despite these precautions the terrorists were able to strike a blow in Arlit although almost all the dead are Nigerians. Early indications suggest that the jihadists entered Niger from Mali.
"When cleaning northern Mali, we have reinforced those same Islamists in southern Libya and even in Tunisia, Mauritania, Niger and this poses a risk even to Morocco," he said last week at the launch of his book Sahelistan, the Samuel French perodista Laurent. Libya is the new terrorist stronghold and from there came to seize, in January, of Algerian gas plant and now Amenas to hit Artlit.
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