While France began Tuesday August 1 the evacuation of its nationals who wish to leave Niger, after the coup d’etat, subsidiaries of several large French companies are established there, in particular Véolia, Vinci, without forgetting Orano, ex- Areva, which operates several uranium deposits in the northwest of the country and has no plans to interrupt its activities. If Niger is still one of the main suppliers of the European Union, its uranium exports are less and less essential both for France and the Europeans and for Niamey.
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Nuclear: Niger, an essential supplier of uranium, but no longer essential
