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Sahel Juntas Pile Pressure On Foreign Mining Firms

Niger wants to nationalise the local branch of Orano, a uranium mining company mostly owned by France (Credit: AFP)

Army strongmen who have seized power in coups across Africa's Sahel region since 2020 have ramped up pressure on foreign mining companies in the name of greater control over their countries' riches.

Niger's nationalisation of the local branch of French uranium giant Orano on Thursday is the latest such measure by the junta and its allies in Burkina Faso and Mali.

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