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Sahel: French company Orano loses operating license of key uranium site in Niger

This followed months of demands for the project’s resumption, which had been stalled. Orano plans to contest this decision legally. Despite Orano's minimization of the impact, the mine holds significant uranium reserves. This action is seen within the context of...

Niger: More Russian Weapons and Military Instructors Land in Niamey

The departure of the French and American troops from Niger created an opportunity for the Russians to replace them. The Russians’ objective is to clearly counter the west and reduce its influence in the Sahel, West Africa and elsewhere on the African continent. The...

Senegal at the Center of Another Geopolitical Fight

By Arezki Daoud: France is experiencing an unprecedented backlash in the Sahel and in West Africa. Disastrous post-colonial policies forced the people of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to expel French troops and diplomats, reducing Paris' entrenched but...

Mali: Al Qaeda attacks rebel convoy in the Ouagadou forest

By MondAfrique: A column of armed vehicles from the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), the Touareg rebel coalition driven out of Kidal, was attacked by fighters from the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) on Friday in the Ouagadou forest, while that it was...

Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants

The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of undocumented migrants originating from Niger. In return, two days later Algeria also summoned the ambassador of the Republic of Niger in Algiers, Aminou...

Senegal: Disgraced President leaves office to find shelter in Marrakesh

By MondAfrique: A short video circulating on social media shows outgoing Senegalese President Macky Sall's departure for Morocco on April 2, the day of the inauguration of his rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Morocco officially welcomed the former President of Senegal...

Mali resumes train service on Bamako-Kayes line

Les opérations de vente de tickets pour le 1er voyage du train ont commencé ce jeudi à Kayes L’engouement de la population est perceptible au niveau des guichets. La locomotive CC2207 de la SOPAFER effectuera demain le trajet Bamako-Kayes, avec des arrêts dans toutes...

Nigeria: New president starts job on shaky ground after nearly tripling fuel prices

By Alexandre Martins Lopes with Louise Dewast in Abuja and Aminu Abubakar in Kano: Commuting to work in Lagos, Nigeria's megacity of some 20 million people, has long been a hellish affair, but a surge in petrol prices is making it even worse. Fuel prices have almost...

Sahel: Burkina Faso junta issues decree to requisition gold from mining companies ($)

Burkina Faso is drowning in economic and financial hardship and the ongoing security environment mean that the country is looking for every possible avenue to find money. A country ruled by a junta that forced itself into power through a coup, without too many friends...

Niger has a non-existent economy despite uranium wealth

By Boureima Hama with Pierre Donadieu in Abidjan Prospects for the world's nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels -- but Niger, one of the world's biggest sources of uranium, has yet to...

Mali, a leading producer of gold, manganese and lithium, shakes up mining sector

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