NIAMEY: Niger and the United States have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of American troops from the West African country, a process that has already begun and will be finished by Sept. 15, they said in a joint statement.Niger’s ruling junta last month told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military personnel from … Read more
Niger‘s government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off “with immediate effect” its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia.The statement … Read more
ACCRA, Ghana – ECOWAS flag with member flags at the second extraordinary summit on the political situation in Burkina Faso, in Accra, Ghana, on February 3, 2022. Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images Three West African countries currently under the rule of military juntas have announced plans to exit the Economic Community of West … Read more
Employee holding up yellowcake at a uranium processing facility at Turamidih Uranium Mill in India. Pallava Bagla | Corbis News | Getty Images The uranium renaissance has a slight hitch: the world’s largest producer of the yellowcake is staring at a production snag over the next two years. And that’s about to send uranium prices, … Read more
A farmer in the Niger whose fields have dried up due to the heat. A father in Palau who does not know whether his house will still be standing when his children are grown up. Mayors in Spain, Germany or Lithuaniawho have to find a way to protect their towns and cities from a water … Read more
What Emmanuel Macron calls an “epidemic” of coups in Francophone Africa is spreading. Not since the Arab Spring have Paris and other Western capitals seemed so overtaken by events, as a string of supposedly stable strongman regimes fall at the hands of ambitious military officers, often cheered on by a new generation disillusioned by unkept … Read more
It takes a long time to dig a mine, especially in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Just ask Bob Tait. The Toronto-based Global Atomic Corp. where he serves as vice president of investor relations started exploring for uranium in the middle of Niger, a landlocked West African nation roughly twice the size of Texas, … Read more