Niger is pushing ahead with a revised mining framework for one of West Africa’s largest uranium deposits, as it enters advanced negotiations with a Canadian miner, GoviEx Uranium Inc., over the long-delayed Madaouela project.
The talks in Niamey were led by the Minister of Mines, Commissioner-Colonel Abarchi Ousmane, who held high-level discussions with a delegation from GoviEx over the structure of a new mining convention governing the project’s potential restart.
The delegation, which spent a week in the Nigerien capital, held technical and legal discussions with officials from the Ministry of Mines on restructuring the agreement governing the long-delayed Madaouela uranium project.
The talks form part of Niger’s broader mining sovereignty drive aimed at increasing state control and revenue from strategic mineral assets.
Officials said the engagement focused on drafting a revised fiscal, legal and operational framework to guide the project’s potential restart.
