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Niger

Niger

Population: 28.08m
GDP: $19.59bn
Debt: 48.57% of GDP (2024)

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Yellowcake shutdown

Uranium production will effectively cease with the decision by France’s Orano to suspend activities at the Arlit mine operated by Société des mines de l’Aïr (Somaïr), due to...


Junta’s stance threatens uranium exports

In its haste to expel western mining companies, the junta risks being left with no one to exploit its most valuable export

General Abdourahamane Tiani’s military junta has carried out its threat to revoke the uranium mining licences of companies deemed not to have progressed their projects quickly enough, but...


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Niamey junta cancels France’s Orano permit in uranium mine

The regime’s action against the French nuclear group sends a message to Paris and may open to the mine to a Russian investor

Niger’s military junta’s decision to revoke the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at the Imouraren mine in northern Niger, which sits on an estimated 200,000...

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The juntas are running out of excuses

Populist rhetoric and ethnic targeting by the military regimes are deepening the region's fault-lines

The lean season in the Sahel this year is starting under the toughest economic and political conditions for generations. Mali and Burkina Faso have been baked by a...


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