(Reuters) - Nomadic rebels who have launched a string of attacks in northern Niger's Sahara desert said on Wednesday they wanted greater control over uranium and oil reserves being sold off to Chinese and other foreign firms.
The former French colony's desert north has long been a hotbed of dissent, largely beyond government control, full of disillusioned, unemployed youths and awash with arms left over from an uprising by Tuareg, Arab and Toubou nomads in the 1990s.
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The former French colony's desert north has long been a hotbed of dissent, largely beyond government control, full of disillusioned, unemployed youths and awash with arms left over from an uprising by Tuareg, Arab and Toubou nomads in the 1990s.
Read more at Reuters Africa
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