Fellows & Editors
Armin Rosen
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Business Insider
- Country:
- Niger
- Year:
- 2015
- Find me on:
Armin Rosen is Business Insider's military and defense editor. A former editorial fellow with The Atlantic, he has reported from Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia and elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East for a number of publications, including The New Republic, The American Interest, City Journal, Tablet, and World Affairs Journal. Rosen is a member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' National Security Network, and writes frequently on topics related to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and international security. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary's joint degree program.
Stories
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‘A City Lost in the Desert’: A Visit to the Sahara’s Uranium Capital
In May 2013, a car bomb detonated near the Somair uranium mine in Arlit, in northern Niger, killing one person. Moments earlier, in Agadez, some 150 miles south, Al Qaeda-affiliated...
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The Market for the One Energy Source That’s a Menace to Civilization Is Absolutely Mind-Boggling
Uranium isn’t like other commodities for one very simple reason: It’s impossible to vaporize an entire city with a single petroleum- or coal-based weapon that’s smaller...
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One Uranium Mine in Niger Says a Lot About China’s Huge Nuclear-Power Ambitions
The odds of finding much of anything seem slim in northern Niger’s unnerving expanses of hazy white desert. The land is so vast, so untethered from any obvious landmarks that...
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Niger Is the Most Amazing Country I Never Expected to Visit
Chances are you'll never get to go to Niger. I never thought I'd get to go there either. {image-1} Boaters on the Niger River in Niamey, the country's capital. ...
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Inside the Amazing Chinese-Built Luxury Hotel in the Capital of One of the World’s Poorest Countries
Food options are limited in northern Niger, but one dietary staple is readily available just about everywhere I went in the vast, landlocked West African country. From remote highway rest stops...
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Niger’s Desert North Is a Glimpse Into the Destructive Brilliance of Gaddafi’s 42 Years in Power
The Grand Mosque of Niamey, built with Libyan government funding in the 1970s, is a beaming adobe with a prism of latticed archways capped with a brilliant green dome, glittering and unscathed...
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Here’s How People Make Ends Meet in One of the Poorest Places in the World
Niger is a country at peace. But a World Food Program distribution site in Torouf — a village about an hour’s drive from the city of Tahoua — seemed lifted...
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An Oil Dispute in Niger Is Exposing Big Problems With Chinese Investment in Africa
On August 14, a compressor failed at the Soraz oil refinery near Zinder, Niger, crippling one of the very few pieces of industrial infrastructure in one of the poorest countries in the world. ...
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