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

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

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

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

Niger's military regime has announced it is putting uranium produced by Somaïr – a subsidiary of French nuclear giant Orano ...

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 ...

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. ; ...

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

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

Nicolas Maes, left, CEO of French nuclear firm Orano, signs an agreement on the exploitation of uranium with the former Nigerien Mining Minister Hadiza Ousseini in Niamey, in 2023 [File: Boureima Hama ...

Niger's military regime on Sunday announced it was putting uranium produced by Somair -- a subsidiary of French giant Orana ...

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 ...