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Niger radio station, critical of AREVA uranium company, re-opens

….who announced in January 2008 a campaign against uranium mining, including by French state-controlled nuclear company Areva, in the north..

Niger radio in rebel area back on air after 2 years , Google hosted news 15 June 2010, NIAMEY — The main private radio station in uranium-rich northern Niger was on air again on Monday after being closed two years earlier by the deposed president following broadcasts linked to the Tuareg rebellion.

“The National Observatory of Communication has given us permission and we have already started transmitting again,” said the head of private Sahara FM, Ahmed Raliou, in the northern capital Agadez………..

Before being bought out in 2004, Sahara FM belonged to the head of the Tuareg rebellion, Rhissa Ag Boula, who announced in January 2008 a campaign against uranium mining, including by French state-controlled nuclear company Areva, in the north…….It has also broadcast extracts from an article that appeared in a local newspaper about the risks of radioactive contagion of the groundwater from uranium extracted in the area, he said.

Deeply poor Niger is the world’s third largest uranium producer.

AFP: Niger radio in rebel area back on air after 2 years

June 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | media, Niger | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive, uranium