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| French firms to withdraw staff from northern Niger |
| 2010-09-19 |
| (Xinhua) -- Areva and Vinci, the two French firms whose staff members were abducted in northern Niger earlier this week, said Saturday they were pulling out all their staff from the region. Employees working at Niger's Arlit region are the first to be evacuated, according to French media. The two companies said all their staff would be transferred to the Niger capital of Niamey over the weekend. Five French nationals working for Areva and Satom, a Vinci affiliate, were kidnapped Wednesday night near uranium mines in Arlit, along with one Togolese and one Madagascan national. |
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