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 has not appointed any other investors in their place...
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Niger's military leader General Abdourahamane Tiani told the AES summit that ‘our people have irrevocably turned their backs on Ecowas...
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On 14 June in Niger the deposed head of state Mohamed Bazoum now facing a trial on charges of treason plotting against state security and freeing terrorists was deprived of his presidential immunity in a ruling by the new Cour d'État tribunal established by General Abdourahamane Tiani's regime (AC Vol 64 No 16 A coup foretold but not averted)...
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Vol 65 No 14 |
- NIGER
- FRANCE
In April General Abdourahamane Tiani gave Canada's GoviEx Uranium a 3 July deadline to start mining at its Madaouéla project or risk losing its permit prompting speculation that the site could be awarded to Russian firms in line with the junta's increasingly close political ties to Moscow (AC Vol 65 No 9 Yellowcake woes)...
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Vol 65 No 13 |
- BENIN
- NIGER
The arrest of five Nigérien oil technicians in Benin at the beginning of June has sparked accusations of ‘kidnapping' and ‘hostage-taking' from General Abdourahamane Tiani's regime and has scuppered hopes of an early end to the bitter rift between Niamey and Cotonou...
In Niger General Abdourahamane Tiani's junta is preparing the ground for prosecuting detained President Mohamed Bazoum and several associates...
The Niger junta's boss Gen Abdourahamane Tiani reacted badly to the plea...
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Vol 65 No 9 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
He was finalising plans to announce the renaming of the currency when he was overthrown by General Abdourahamane Tiani and imprisoned in his own residence (AC Vol 64 No 16 A coup foretold but not averted)...
Junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani has fallen out with companies promoting potential uranium mines over the pace of their development...
Severing military ties with the United States on 16 March three months after France closed its embassy in Niamey General Abdourahamane Tiani's Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (CNSP) is shifting its security and diplomatic focus away from western powers towards Russia and to a lesser extent Iran...