Niger's natural wealth exploited - 16 July 08

The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining, an industry run by foreign companies that many say is having devastating environmental repurcussions.

Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports on civilians and rebels in the uranium mining zone.

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• nomad
• desertification

[foititis]

Where is France's high moral ground now?

[nordicpower88]

All this for Uranium.... do we really even need uranium? I think not...

[extraterrestrialbibi]

blame the arabs

[extraterrestrialbibi]

this place is where my ancestor came from and migrated to nigeria can't believe how nice their hair textture is i wish mine was like that anyways love you people from niger-ngieria

[sgkots]

Beat the bastards. Objectively. Eventually. 4Q!

[maman1346]

and now france is so wory for libyan people and wants to save them ! what a joke

[skulldrix]

This is dumb. Wtf. Capitalist greedy bastards!

[anapao89]

@shaibear well.. that's very selfish of u. Later in life I hope u realize that the more languages u know, the more ur worth! (in getting jobs and stuff) so don't look at this as a "boring experience" and take advantage of it, u never know in what kind of situation u would end up that u'll be force to use that language.

[shaibear]

@anapao89 nope Canadian and it's not nessiarily the french in general it's just the language, I find it one of the most unattractive and in Canada u have 2 learn the language in school... which makes long hours of me sitting there bored as hell

[anapao89]

@VraiDiouf well don't know how the story goes, the fact is that everybody is at fault equally. People should stand for their rights!!

[VraiDiouf]

@meleszenawi1111 many gouvernment say they are democracy, I do not believe you live in Mali. Nigeria say they are democracy what have they done for their people? There are many group of people in Mali and Niger (mainly my group (Fulani) and the Touareg who struggle without water. They just now try to put more wells in many part of Niger and Mali. Nomads are ignored for most part in West Africa.

[VraiDiouf]

@anapao89 the French did play a role in Niger/Mali but that was half century ago. Yes, the French did awful job, but we can still progress if we have a good leadership.