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Ten Tuareg rebels killed in March: Niger army
Niamey (AFP) March 31, 2008 Ten Tuareg rebels were killed and many others wounded in the last three weeks of March in strikes against mountain hideouts in Niger, a spokesman for the country's armed forces said Monday. The rebels were killed in "operations to destroy the hideouts of armed bandits in the Air mountains," said spokesman Goukoye Abdulkarim. Five soldiers were also killed in the operations, three of them by a mine, he said, speaking on state media. One rebel was taken prisoner in the operations, conducted between March 9 and March 29, he said. The Movement of Niger People for Justice (MNJ) is dismissed by Niamey as a group of "bandits" and "drug-dealers" and is a splinter faction of Niger's main Tuareg groups, which signed a 1995 agreement with the government to end a rebellion. The Tuaregs are nomadic tribes who roamed the Sahara for centuries before nations of the region gained independence from European colonial powers. The MNJ wants a share in Niger's uranium wealth and a role in the country's armed forces. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Africa News - Resources, Health, Food
Plastic bags spawn cottage industry in Ivory Coast
Abidjan (AFP) March 30, 2008They may be the scourge of cityscapes and the countryside and the bane of environmentalists, but discarded plastic bags have spawned a growing and lucrative cottage industry in Ivory Coast. |
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