Are you so fukking dumb that you can't connect the dots and comprehend that Africa is "providing" these natural resources necessary to have a manufacturing economy at far below market value through French multinational companies?
Do you think all those precious minerals are extracted from French soil
? Do they magically manifest the cobalt needed to create electronic products with an incantation? Do you think France can have a manufacturing economy without Africa? Is that pile of shyt you call a brain starting to understand that
resource poor countries need to dominate and control resource rich countries (the AES) in order to have their huge economies? Did you even graduate high school, you stupid little boy?
Your list proves my point
, but you're so dumb you honestly think the French use their own cobalt, uranium and oil. You're a pathetic excuse for a man regardless, but I
seriously feel sorry for you if you're over the age of 25. SMH.
The amount of lies and foolishness you believe is like nothing I've seen before. Legendary stupidity.
2/3 of the uranium France uses for their electricity come from Niger. France has 2,436.8 tonnes of gold in their national gold reserve, despite not being a gold rich country. The fourth largest national gold reserves in the world. The amount of resource theft and wealth transfer from Africa to France is astonishing, WELL DOCUMENTED and despicable. The leaders the AES deposed were accepting enormous personal bribes to keep their countries poor and destabilized so French multinational companies could extract and manufacture valuable resources for peanuts. You are so dumb and so ignorant that you can unironically call yourself "Toussaint" and
literally watch Africans free themselves in real time with disgust. You can't make this stuff up.
How dependent is France on Niger's uranium?
The military coup in Niger has raised concerns about uranium mining in the country by the French group Orano, and the consequences for France's energy independence.
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How dependent is France on Niger's uranium?
One week after the military coup in Niger led by
General Abdourahamane Tiani, France
completed the evacuation of 600 French nationals on Wednesday, August 2. This uncertain political context is also beginning to raise economic concerns.
In France, fears are particularly focused on the exploitation of uranium from Niger, and the possible consequences of this energy independence. A natural resource essential to the operation of French nuclear power plants, uranium mined in Niger has been exploited for over four decades by the French nuclear fuel cycle group Orano (formerly Areva).
Three mines operating in Niger
The multinational, which is 90% owned by the French state, operates
three mines in Niger, only one of which is currently in production:
- The Aïr mines, whose operating company Somair is 63.4% owned by Orano, are based near the town of Arlit, in the desert to the north of Niger. Although the mine is nearing depletion, its operation has been extended until 2040.
- The Akokan mining site, around ten kilometers from Arlit, has been closed since the end of March 2021. With reserves exhausted after four decades of mining, Compagnie minière d'Akouta, 59%-owned by Orano, is now working on a project to redevelop its sites.
- Finally, Orano holds a 63.52% stake in the Imouraren mine, located 80 kilometers south of Arlit, which is considered to be one of the world's largest uranium deposits. However, after an operating permit was issued in 2009, production at the site was suspended due to a lack of favorable market conditions.
For the time being, Orano has announced that it will continue its mining activities, despite the putsch in Niger. "To date, activities at the operational sites in Arlit and at the headquarters in Niamey are continuing with an adapted organization in the context of the curfew in place throughout Niger," the
group announced on its website on Thursday, August 3.
Niger, one of France's top three uranium suppliers
To operate the fifty-six nuclear reactors in France's eighteen power plants, operator EDF requires an average of
around 8,000 tons of natural uranium every year. Following the cessation of mining on French soil in the early 2000s, France turned to several countries simultaneously for its supplies. The diversification of suppliers is a source of security for EDF.
Over the last ten years, the 88,200 tonnes of natural uranium imported into France came mainly from three countries: Kazakhstan (27%), Niger (20%), and Uzbekistan (19%). Niger plays an important role in France's supplies, but its importance is
overestimated by some politicians.
On a global scale, however, "Niger has become a secondary producer over the years, as production costs are high and prices slumped until 2016 after [the nuclear accident at] Fukushima," explained Teva Meyer, a lecturer at the University of Haute-Alsace and researcher at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, to French newspaper
Les Echos. By 2022, Niger accounted for just 4% of global production, well behind Kazakhstan (43%), Canada (15%), Namibia (11%), and Australia (8%).
Kazakhstan, the world's largest uranium producer
With close to half of the world's uranium production (43%) coming from Kazakhstan in 2022, Niger accounted for just 4% of global production.
The military coup in Niger has raised concerns about uranium mining in the country by the French group Orano, and the consequences for France's energy independence.
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I think we are all well aware of France’s exploitative relationship with Africa. However you are going to bring down a multi-trillion dollar economy that easily lol
Also have any of the juntas shut down French mining operations?
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