Global Atomic delayed the start-up of Niger’s Dasa uranium processing plant by one year to the second half of 2027. Border closures with Benin and financing delays disrupted equipment imports and ...

Niger is threatening legal action against Orano over barrels of radioactive waste found near a former uranium site amid ...

French nuclear fuels group Orano said on Monday a uranium shipment from its expropriated SOMAIR mine in northern Niger last ...

EADaily, December 4th, 2025. Niger exports uranium mined at the Arlit mine, where the French Orano worked. The company was ...

Niger's military regime has announced it is putting uranium produced by Somaïr – a subsidiary of French nuclear giant Orano before the regime nationalised it in June – on the international market.

Niger has accused French nuclear fuel group Orano of "predatory behavior" and environmental crimes, escalating a bitter ...

Niger's military government plans to sell uranium from the SOMAÏR mine internationally, asserting its right to manage ...

Niger's plans to put uranium produced by Somaïr on the international market were announced on state television, days after Orano condemned a reported shipment of material from the site as illegal. ; ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Niger’s government said Thursday it would nationalize the Somaïr uranium venture operated by French company Orano and accused it of taking a disproportionate share of the uranium ...

The announcement by the head of the ruling junta on Sunday marks a definitive break with the French group Orano.

ARLIT, Niger/PARIS (Reuters) - When France began mining uranium ore in the desert of northern Niger in the early 1970s, Arlit was a cluster of miners' huts stranded between the sun-blasted rocks of ...