NewsForce(@Newsforce):🇳🇪🇫🇷 PM Lamine Zeine told the UN it will be sold openly and within nuclear non-proliferation rules. He says French operators sabotaged equipment when they left, so Niger spent about 30 billion CFA francs restarting production with only Nigerien workers. Niger took the Somair mine from France's Orano in 2025. Orano won a tribunal order barring sales from it.

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🇳🇪🇫🇷 PM Lamine Zeine told the UN it will be sold openly and within nuclear non-proliferation rules. He says French operators sabotaged equipment when they left, so Niger spent about 30 billion CFA francs restarting production with only Nigerien workers. Niger took the Somair mine from France's Orano in 2025. Orano won a tribunal order barring sales from it.