Update on the situation in Niger

- On July 21, 2011, AREVA has received formal agreement from French authorities to proceed with the return of expatriate staff to northern Niger. Luc Oursel, President and CEO of AREVA and Sebastien de Montessus, Mining Business Group Senior Executive Vice President, went to Niamey and Arlit on July 23 and July 24 to check on the progressive redeployment of the first teams and to look over personally the security system set in place.
- February 25, 2011 : It is with great joy that the AREVA group has learned that Françoise Larribe, spouse of AREVA employee, Daniel Larribe, and Jean-Claude Rakotorilalao and Alex Awando, both employees of VINCI subsidiary, SATOM, have been liberated.
- All of AREVA’s partners have expressed their deep concern and their total support for the colleagues and families of those who were taken hostage. AREVA and VINCI have called for the swift release of their employees, and both are working actively alongside the authorities in charge of search operations.
- During the night of Wednesday, September 15, and the early hours of Thursday, September 16, seven people – one AREVA employee, his wife and five employees from SOGEA-SATOM, a branch of the VINCI group – were kidnapped from their homes in Arlit by armed men.
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