The Paris prosecutor has opened a probe into organised gang theft, in the interests of a foreign power, after uranium went missing from a site in Niger previously operated by French nuclear fuel group ...

FILE PHOTO: Areva's Somair uranium mining facility is seen in Arlit DAKAR (Reuters) -Niger's main mine workers' union has thrown its support behind the military government's planned nationalisation of ...

Aboard an Antonov, from Niamey to Moscow: the long journey of yellowcake extracted in Arlit and purchased by Rosatom. Stopovers in Libya and Syria, and the decoy of a cargo ship waiting in Lomé ...

On Friday, 19 December 2025, an investigation was opened at the Paris court against the state of Niger on charges of illegally selling quantities of ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Today, Orano learned from media reports that a shipment of uranium had left the SOMAÏR mining site in Arlit, northern Niger. Orano states that it is not the ...

French nuclear giant, Orano, says 1,600 tonnes of uranium stockpiled before nationalisation may have been moved, prompting ...

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