Akokan, Niger

Akokan is mining settlement in the city of Arlit in Niger.

Akokan consists of the districts Akokan Cité, where, according to census lived 2001 13.096 inhabitants, and Akokan Carré with 8,831 inhabitants according to census 2001. Settlement of Compagnie Minière d' Akouta ( Cominak ) was created in the 1970s for the workers and employees, the the nearby uranium mine Akouta exploits. In Akokan an administrative post in 1979 ( post administratif ) set up, one from a chef de poste administratif headed lower administrative unit. Akokan offers for Nigerien standards relatively high urban infrastructure, are among the hotels, sports facilities and a cultural center. To the district created vast shantytowns in which Tuareg and Tubu from the region settled. Greenpeace presented in 2009, an alarming radioactive contamination in and around Akokan fixed. The French state-owned company Areva, which has a relative majority at the Cominak, the allegations finally confirmed in 2010 and pledged to clean up the affected areas.