Niger Cancels Mining Licences as Junta Pushes for Resource Control
In a move that reflects Nigerโs shifting political and economic priorities, the countryโs military-led government has revoked three mining concessions...
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Pivoting East, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Partnering with Russia on the Sahelโs First Shared Satellite
Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are betting that space technology can help close some of the Sahelโs most stubborn development...
Niger-France Fallout: How the 2025 Uranium Rupture Reshaped Families, Power and the Sahelโs Economic Future
By 2025, the relationship between Franceโs flagship nuclear group and Nigerโs ruling junta had reached an irreversible breaking point. What...
CNPC Defies Nigerโs Junta, Keeps Drilling Oil Flow, Despite Rising Tensions
In the sun-scorched plains of Nigerโs Agadem basin, the pumps have not stopped humming. Chinaโs state-owned oil giant CNPC, continues...
Russia Moves to Displace France in Uranium-Rich Niger with Nuclear Power Proposal
For decades, Nigerโs uranium has lit up French homes while Niamey itself was left in the dark. Today, that paradox...
New ECOWAS Chairman initiates moves to bring Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger back to the bloc
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, who assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)...
Nigerโs military government seizes control of industrial gold mine from Australian operator
Nigerโs military government has announced the nationalisation of the countryโs only industrial gold mine, accusing its Australian operator of โserious...
Niger opens investigation into $5 million sale of Martian Meteorite found in Agadez region
NIGERโS government has ordered an official investigation after learning that a rare Martian meteorite discovered on its territory was recently...
