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Spotlight | Niger
Junta calls bluff of foreign uranium miners

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Orano CEO Nicolas Maes (left) and the Nigerien prime minister, Ali Lamine Zeine.
Orano CEO Nicolas Maes (left) and the Nigerien prime minister, Ali Lamine Zeine. © Boureima Hama/AFP - AFP

Despite issuing a series of ultimatums to the uranium mining companies, the Nigerien authorities are struggling to find real alternatives. The problem is illustrated by the Imouraren project of the French group Orano.

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