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Nigerien authorities have launched an investigation into the sabotage of a section of oil pipeline leading to Benin. This happened on the night of June 16-17, a section of an oil pipeline from Niger to Benin was reportedly ruptured.
Nigerien authorities have launched an investigation into the sabotage of a section of oil pipeline leading to Benin. This happened on the night of June 16-17, a section of an oil pipeline from Niger to Benin was reportedly ruptured. The pipeline has a capacity of 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) and extends for nearly 2,000 km (1,243-mile) linking Niger’s Agadem oilfield to Benin’s coast. This caused 370 meters of oil to leak.
Authorities have already gathered information and evidence on the alleged perpetrators and all those involved will be arrested and punished according to their crime, stated Governor of Niger’s Zinder region Colonel Issoufou Labo.
On June 17, the Patriotic Liberation Front (FLP), a rebel movement fighting for the release of Nigerien former President Mohamed Bazoum, who was ousted in a coup in July and has been in detention since, claimed responsibility for an attack on the pipeline.
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