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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - A radio journalist in Niger has been arrested on charges of passing government secrets to Tuareg rebels during interviews, officials said Saturday.
Moussa Kaka, a reporter for Radio France International and director of a private radio station that has reported heavily on the rebellion, has been held since Thursday for "conniving with the enemy" in his conversations with members of the Tuareg rebel group, the Niger Movement for Justice, said Adama Harouna, the attorney general of the appeals court of the arid West African country.
Harouna said Kaka will be tried on charges of passing state secrets to the group, thereby endangering the safety of the state. He did not provide details on what type of information was allegedly compromised or what state secrets the journalist would have had access to.
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