Canada's GoviEx Uranium's stripped of Niger mining rights

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/canadas-goviex-uraniums-stripped-niger-mining-rights-2024-07-05/

The company said it "reserves the right to challenge the decision to withdraw the mining rights before the competent national or international jurisdictions".

Orano said on June 20 that the Niger government, which came into power through a coup in 2023, had scrapped a mining permit for its subsidiary Imouraren. Niger possesses Africa's highest-grade uranium ores and is the world's seventh-largest uranium producer