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This paper argues that environmental issues related to extractive industries have been a ‘blind spot’ in the aid portfolio, due to a ‘crisis discourse’ on Niger and the geopolitical interests of donors.
The role of development cooperation in fostering improved environmental governance of extractive industries in African countries exposed to the expanding global uranium frontier remains ambiguous. With primary data, this paper demonstrates how foreign aid to Niger has ignored grievances on grave environmental impacts and rampant institutional failures while a crisis discourse on desertification and food insecurity diverts attention from geopolitical interests in mineral wealth.
The authors argue that aid delivery remains insufficient to address structural deficiencies cemented by decades of investment-friendly “politics of mining” and conclude that domestic reforms must be backed by stronger transnational accountability mechanisms to overcome corporate impunity.
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Feature / The impacts of climate change that threaten livelihoods in the Sahel region cut across borders. No country alone can overcome the challenges.
Perspective / The potential for climate change to exacerbate violent conflict is manifest in Africa. Growing competition over natural resources will likely increase tensions.
Other publication / This research note was published under SOJOURN, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia.
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