thelastaxolotl [he/him]

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Cake day: January 15th, 2021

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  • The Nigerien government has announced the nationalization of a unit of the French uranium company Orano. Its subsidiary Somaïr has been at the center of a standoff that has been ongoing since last year, when the company suspended production at the mine. The announcement was made last week on state television, citing “irresponsible, illegal and disloyal behavior” by the French company. Orano is 90% owned by the French government and has operated mines in the African country for decades.

    On the same occasion, the country’s president, Abdourahamane Tchiani, announced the nationalization of the Niger Electricity Company (Nigelec SA). Created as a joint-stock company with a mixed economy, Nigelec is responsible for the production, transmission, and distribution of electricity throughout the country. Its share capital, valued at over 76 billion CFA francs, was held by the state for over 99%, with the remainder being held by several minority shareholders, including the French Development Agency.

    Despite public dominance, the company remained autonomous for several decades, with attempts at privatization that never came to fruition.

    According to analysts, in addition to the numbers, the lack of adequate energy supply itself motivated the action. For several years, the population of the Sahel country has been faced with recurring power cuts, due to the country’s strong energy dependence on Nigeria.

    Hopefully they are able to built up their energy sector to stop their dependence on nigeria






  • ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sparks outcry from indigenous tribes as construction speeds ahead Hexbear Post

    Construction is moving rapidly on a controversial migrant detention center deep in the Florida Everglades nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” despite growing concerns from Native American tribes who call the area home.

    The facility is being built on an old airstrip at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, roughly an hour and 45 minutes west of Miami. The state is using emergency powers to take over the county-owned land and construct a center that can detain up to 5,000 migrants.

    Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet Hexbear Post

    Earlier this year, it seemed as though the final chapter of Leonard Peltier’s story had been written. The eighty-year-old is serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1975 killing of two F.B.I. agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, which he says he didn’t commit. Having exhausted legal channels for appeal, and been denied parole, it appeared that he would die in prison. But, during the final moments of Joe Biden’s Presidential Administration, Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence to home confinement. Peltier is now home, at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, in North Dakota.



















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