Turkey Eyes Niger Mining Projects Amid Competition for Uranium
- Niger and Turkey sign provisional pact for mining exploration
- Junta revoked French, Canadian companies’ permits last year
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Turkey and Niger signed a provisional pact to boost cooperation in mining, a sign of closer ties between the countries as new powers jostle for access to the West African nation’s uranium resources.
The agreement, following a visit by a Nigerien delegation to Turkey, aims to help Turkish companies undertake exploration in Niger, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wrote on X, without elaborating on the nature of potential projects.