“Militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar masterminded the two suicide bombs in Niger on Thursday, reports say. Mr Belmokhtar is said to have ‘supervised’ the bombings, according to Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar. Suicide bombers struck a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west Niger, killing 20 people.”
Source: BBC News – Mokhtar Belmokhtar ‘masterminded’ Niger suicide bombs