Pambazuka - French nuclear power fed by uranium from Niger

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Niger exports enough uranium to France to generate 80 per cent of the latter’s electricity supply, writes Khadija Sharife. But ordinary Nigeriens reap little benefit from France’s control of their country’s uranium resources, with over three-fifths of the population living below the poverty line and reports of radioactive contamination of water, air and soil by multinational mining operations.

Much of the Tuareg unrest in Niger, which some assert is linked to Al Qaeda, results from their opposition to this French uranium mining.