NEW ENERGY BRIDGE AND URANIUM RULES IN CENTRAL ASIA

NIGER, FRANCE, CHINA, AND RUSSIA TAKE THEIR RESPECTIVE URANIUM SHARES IN CENTRAL ASIA. AZERBAIJAN, UZBEKISTAN, AND KAZAKHSTAN ARE ELECTRIFYING.

The loss of Niger as a key uranium supplier has pushed Paris to rapidly pivot its resource strategy toward Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Yet Russia’s grip on the critical stages of the nuclear‑fuel cycle leaves France far less room for manoeuvre than it once enjoyed in Africa, turning regional competition into a search for “windows” within Moscow’s technol…