But the appeal of cheap uranium is too strong apparently when the other suppliers are too close to Russia geographically, I guess.
People should come first. It's very disappointing.
France doesn't depend on Niger for Uranium, and the royalties are low because it's very hard to extract Uranium in a landlocked semi-desertic country with no road nor proper power grid.
Overall, I agree that France should leave this unprofitable mining operation - I'm sure that the Chinese or the Russians will propose much better deals!
There are FOIA reports that the nato strikes on Libya were because the French president of the time wanted to have a better “standing” at home. Same bombing that led to the failed state that has now caused tens of thousands of people to die from a flooding.
France, and Europe have a ton of responsibility in what’s happening.
Waging wars has nothing to do with fertility rates. A bit strange that they tend to do that at times, and at others when it's favorable to them, all of a sudden a coup is not a coup.
And France does depend on Niger for its uranium, check your facts, Niger is in 3rd position.
It's also well known that Areva hasn't been up to notch with environmental safety wrt its extraction and handling of radioactive garbage process. Locals are suffering.
It has nothing to do with how hard it alledgedly is to extract uranium. They wouldn't do that in Europe. Period.
How is there no infrastructure and the country has such natural resources being exported is a better question. The exchange is obviously unfair.
The country is free to do business with whoever they'd like. Not wanting to do business with the French government et.al. has nothing to do with the Chinese or Russians. They are not obligated.
It's a free market, not slavery.
And the so-called jihadism excuse, why is there no jihadism in the UAE, it's not jihadism, it's coopted poverty.
But France depends/ was depending mainly on uranium from Kazakhstan, Niger and Uzbekistan.
