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The driver kidnapped along with Robert Fowler and Louis Guay has been released. 

It has now been two weeks since Canadians Robert Fowler, Louis Guay, and a third (possibly fourth) person disappeared in Niger, on the road back to Niamey after a private visit to a Canadian-run gold mine across the Niger river, near Samira. Their UN marked car was found with the engine running, an indicator on, with the doors open and three cell phones sitting on the seat. 

Since Sunday evening, two Canadian diplomats — UN Special Envoy Robert Fowler, his assistant Louis Guay, along with their driver (and possibly a fourth person) — have been missing in Niger. Initial indications were that they had been taken by a splinter cell of the MNJ, the Tuareg group that has been fighting the Nigerien gov for control of the massive uranium deposits under the Saharan desert that takes up the top 80% of the country.