I do know where Niger is, but had forgotten there is a French-owned and run uranium mine. The attacks had little reporting here, as Woolwich happened.

Islamist militants staged brazen twin car bomb attacks on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger, killing at least 20 people and taking several trainee army officers hostage...The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO)....claimed the near simultaneous bombings
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-hostages.html

Two French reports need to be read; one suggests the location at the mine was very carefully chosen and production will be hindered for two months:http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20130526-n...-le-site-areva

The second strike on a military base appears to have targeted the army officers training academy:http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20130527-i...ar-belmokhtar-