Niger's military ruler Abdourahamane Tchiani, who seized power in 2023, is now Niger's president. The country's return to ...

The talks focused on key development sectors such as mining, water resource management, sustainable energy, and cancer care.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi visited Niger for high-level meetings with ...

China has helped remake Niger's energy sector, but pay disparities and unequal employment roles have caused friction.

Uranium is the primary fuel for nuclear reactors and its production cycle must be managed carefully, in a safe and secure manner. The IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is in Niger which ...

With France ramping up its nuclear ambitions, President Emmanuel Macron is leading a policy council to accelerate support for innovative small nuclear reactor projects and secure long-term energy ...

Mining was meant to have started at Imouraren in 2015 but development was frozen after the collapse in world uranium prices in the wake of the 2011 Japanese nuclear disaster. The Niger government ...

Should Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger lead the call for reparations from France? Well according to Alain Kone, an expert at ...

On Thursday Grossi met Niger's junta-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, along with the mining, foreign and energy ministers to explore "deepening cooperation". "Nuclear science and ...

The Niger junta has torn up defence agreements with the United States and former colonial power France. Authorities also took control of French nuclear fuels company Orano's Somair uranium mine.