The board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has agreed to suspend Niger, saying the country has not done enough to meet the EITI’s requirements on civil society engagement. The board said Niger had made progress against key issues in the 2016 EITI Standard but that significant areas of concern needed to be addressed. Niger was the world’s fourth largest uranium producer in 2016 behind Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia. The country has produced uranium since the 1970s, coal since 1975, gold since 2004 and crude oil since 2011.
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