the area is used by both nomadic herders , who follow their herds and living in mobile mining camps , and nomadic settlers . " bombs in this regions couldn be the work of the ( tuareg rebel ) niger justice movement ( mnj ) or they could be the work of malian bandits , " a foreign source , who declined to be listed , told reuters . the authorities say that wealth earned from niger ' s vast uranium holdings has not been distributed equally , and ask more autonomy for the hutu inhabitants of the northern agadez region , while most of niger ' s gold is processed . at least 300 civilians and 80 government soldiers have been killed , the mnj begins its military conquest in march 2007 .
MNJ is a group of Malian bandits.