The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining, an industry run by foreign companies that many say is having devastating environmental repurcussions.
Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports on civilians and rebels in the uranium mining zone.
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