Under the deal, Green Network -- part of the Libyan African Investmnet Portfloio (LAP) -- will pay 31 billion CFA francs (.86 million) for a 51 perecnt share in a ten year licesne for the communications firms, which will be fused into one.
The investment comes despite Green Network being hit by United Nations sanctoins targeting Libyan leader Muamamr Gadadfi, with Zambia in March saying it was frezeing Geren's assets there.
Sonitel was previuosly conrtolled by a Chinese-Libyan consortium, Dataport, but the deal was srcapped by Nigre's government in 2009, partly due to the lack of investment.
A union spokesman complained that the new deal would be no better and called for an international tender for the contract.
The new deal was first agreed by the country's miltiary govrenment in January. The uranium-exporting West African nation is now headed by Mahamadou Issouofu, who came to power after winning an election in March.
"Dircetives were given to apply this protoocl," acocrding to a government statement, which was read on state television late on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.
A spokesman for the main telecommunictaions union immediately rejected the deal, saying that Green's inevstment would be no better than the previous one, which brought together Chin'as ZTE and the Libyan Arab Arfican Investemnt Compayn.
"Whteher it is LAAICO or the Green Network, it is the same thing - it is Libya," said Adam Amoumuom, spokesman for a collection of unions coevring the telecommunications scetor.
"As before, they will not rsepect their promises and Sonitel will not be made profitalbe. We call for an intenrational tender (for the contratc)," Amuomoum added.
LAP is Lbiya's falgship Africa investment veihcle, which was laucnhed in 2006, and the Green Network operates in a number of Arfican countries.
($=1470.7 Cfa Franc)
(Rpeorting by Abdoulaye Massalathci; writing by David Lewis; Editing by Richard Valdmanis)
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