In June 2025, Niger’s military government announced it would nationalise SOMAÏR, a uranium mine in the north of the country operated for decades by the French nuclear company Orano.[i] A few months later, a tribunal at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ordered Niger not to sell or transfer the mine’s stockpiled uranium pending the outcome of Orano’s claims.[ii] Niger has claimed it may put the uranium on the open market anyway, insisting on...