Mali last month announced the nationalisation of the Yatela gold mine, a non-operating asset in which ...

Burkina Faso and Mali will consider any military intervention ... On Monday, BBC reported that Niger’s new authorities had suspended uranium and gold exports to France. Niger is the seventh ...

Burkina Faso and Mali were the first to turn to the ... for security services and to Iran for a possible deal on Niger's uranium reserves. U.S. tries to counter Russia and China's rising influence ...

But Burkina Faso had also updated its mining code whilst in Niger the government had during July withdrawn the mining licence ...

As relations between the ruling juntas in the Sahel States Alliance (AES) and Western powers continue to worsen, Russia is ramping up economic initiatives to strengthen its influence in the region.

French nuclear fuel firm Orano said on Wednesday it was halting its uranium production in junta ... forging ties with fellow juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali -- as well as Iran and Russia.

Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Chad. However, the land border with Nigeria remains closed. Niger, which is rich in uranium, has been a key Western ally in the fight against jihadist extremism in ...

Mali’s military junta — crippled by sanctions and cut off from Western aid — is at the forefront of the push, aggressively ...

Their next stop was Burkina Faso where they were greeted by 35-year ... is rich in natural resources - from timber and gold to uranium and lithium. Some are simply valuable, while others have ...

The sites will include uranium mines in the north ... Islamic State group in the west near the borders with Mali and Burkina Faso. Niamey also faces violence by Boko Haram jihadists and their ...

Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of ...

In September Russia’s space agency signed a deal with Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to deploy telecommunications ... and seeking the rights to a giant uranium mine in Niger.