Guardian: There is no question of stopping uranium production: that is the message the Niger authorities have been repeating since the Arlit kidnapping in the middle of September. “The challenge for us is to maintain output and not be discouraged by these dramatic events,” the military junta’s minister of mines and energy, Souleymane Abba, said. The kidnap of seven hostages by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has not affected uranium production at the two mines in Niger in which Areva, France’s nuclear …