I heard mention of this one on BNN today - that the Niger government is *allegedly* putting the squeeze on the company for more money. But no problems in Burkina Faso or Guinea that i've heard of. They also mentioned that the SP was due for a pullback, which seemed reasonable to me given the huge runup it's had. Maybe it's that sharp gain in SP that has got someone's fingers itchy for a bigger slice of the pie in the first place ..