1. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    "complicated". Everything that has happened in the past 75 years proves one thing: "There are no two sides. One is the oppressor, the other is the oppressed."... * West Africa | Burkina Faso | Russia Big plans for nuclear power The military junta in Burkina Faso has agreed with Russia to build a nuclear power plant, and the regime in Mali is aiming for something similar. [...] For the...

  2. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    primarily depends on the positions of the respective parties in migration policy. And both agree that there is a gap in the party system in Germany... * Africa | Rosatom | Burkina Faso Electricity for Africa - the new boom in nuclear power Many African countries are flirting with nuclear energy - and some projects are already very concrete. They are intended to meet the growing energy demand...

  3. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    Mining is in French hands and is being expanded: this year there was a new contract. BRUSSELS taz | Niger is of much greater strategic importance internationally than Mali or Burkina Faso. This is also due to its mining resources. According to World Nuclear Association data, Niger was the sixth largest uranium producer in the world in 2022, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, Australia...

  4. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    destabilized. The military used force to depose the democratically elected government of President Bazoum. However, large parts of the population support this. After Mali and Burkina Faso already ended democratically elected governments through military revolts, there are now fears that the Sahel zone, which has been overrun by Islamist terrorist groups, will become even more vulnerable to Western influence...

  5. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    exists in the country. A total of 70 tons of it are mined there every year. Of the income from almost 60 tons of gold mined by (estimated) 600 children in the former French colony of Burkina Faso, only 000 percent goes to the country, but 10 percent goes to multinational gold mining companies. It works similarly to gold with uranium: the last of its 90 uranium mines...

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