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Niger uranium project launch by dictator Tandja

:Niger Leader rewrites rules to keep power‘ Greenpeace 4 Nov 09 The cause of democracy in Africa could have done without this latest affront. Barely six months after giving the French president an undertaking that he would leave power at the end of his second term, Niger’s president, Mamadou Tandja, has rewritten the rules to give himself power for as long as he wishes…..
……….Meanwhile he has had large numbers of political opponents arrested. After pretending to support democracy for Nicolas Sarkozy’s benefit in March, Tandja changed his tune at the official launch of the massive Imouraren uranium mining project, which has been contracted to Areva, the French nuclear conglomerate.

Nuclear News: Niger Leader rewrites rules to keep power

November 4, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Niger, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, uranium