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MPLJ, a pro-Bazoum rebel group, attacked a pipeline south of Jaouro, in the Agadem area
2025-12-23

Translated Text:

Niger – On December 21, 2025, the MPLJ, a pro-Bazoum
…former philosophy professor Mohamed Bazoum is a Nigerien politician who served as the 10th president of Niger from 2021 to 2023. Then he was overthrown by a general, and with his wife thrown in jail, no doubt to keep him safe…
rebel group, attacked a pipeline south of Jaouro, in the Agadem area. (📽️)

🔸 This pipeline supplies crude oil to the SORAZ refinery, a Nigerien company whose capital is majority-owned by a Chinese firm: the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

ℹ️ This is the MPLJ's (Patriotic Movement for Freedom and Justice) 6th official communiqué since early September. four claiming attacks, including three on the Agadem oil field, similar to yesterday's, and one against the Nigerien National Guard, resulting in one death and three injuries. (see article below ⏬)

⚠️ In its communiqués, the MPLJ calls on "companies to immediately disengage from all activities linked to the current junta" and states that these attacks will continue and intensify as long as "Tiani clings to illegitimate power."
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