NIGER - YELLOWCAKE, HASHISH AND HELICOPTERS
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Niger has fed France's reactors for fifty years and stayed among the world's poorest countries. In December 2011 a third of a billion dollars passed through a new Paris account of its state mining company in six days. In 2020 its military auditors found arms contracts inflated or never delivered while soldiers died at Inates and Chinégodar, and the people arrested were activists and reporters. A record hashish seizure was burned before ministers, and two journalists were sentenced for sharing a report that questioned it. The money ran from the desert roads of Agadez to Prague, Dubai and Paris; almost none came back. Covers Aboubacar Hima and Brid A Defcon, Aboubacar Charfo and Agacha Technologies, Areva and SOPAMIN, Cherif Ould Abidine and Goumour Atoua, and the CoLDEF commission.
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