Niger is well known in international media as one of the world's poorest countries, struggling with chronic structural hunger and malnutrition. What is less well known to many is that Niger also hosts the fourth largest uranium production in the world. Export values totaled over 348 million...

In recent years, sub-Saharan Africa has come to play an increasingly peripheral part in the world economy. The economic crisis has eroded the legitimacy of the state, and the crisis and structural adjustment measures are having an adverse effect on the poorest people in the poorest countries....