Niger coup shakes its economy
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Talks are taking place in the African state of Niger to re-instate democratic rule, but European nations have already suspended financial support to the country and foreign citizens are being evacuated. For years Chile has been a destination for migrants in South America but now the government wants to restrict the numbers coming into the country, pushing more people north, to the US. And, China’s internet watchdog has introduced stricter regulations aimed at controlling how much kids use smartphones and other devices.
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| 0:00.0 | New Jersey's coup shakes its economy, aid and exports halted. |
| 0:06.1 | Hello, and you're listening to the marketplace morning report. |
| 0:09.1 | Live from the BBC World Service, I'm the Annaburn, and thanks so much for joining us this morning. |
| 0:14.3 | Our top story talks are ongoing today in the African state of New Jersey, to reinstate |
| 0:20.3 | democratic rule there. |
| 0:22.1 | European nations have suspended financial support to the country, and foreign citizens are |
| 0:26.7 | being evacuated. |
| 0:27.7 | And on top of all that, Niger is the world's seventh biggest producer of uranium, which |
| 0:32.9 | is widely used for nuclear energy and treating cancer. |
| 0:36.4 | The military leadership has reportedly issued a declaration to stop gold and uranium exports |
| 0:41.9 | to France. |
| 0:42.9 | Stephen Roman is chief executive of the Global Atomic Corporation, a uranium mining company, |
| 0:47.7 | which is operating in Niger, and shares in the Canadian company dropped 44% after the |
| 0:53.1 | coup. |
| 0:54.1 | He spoke to the BBC's Katie Silver. |
| 0:56.0 | So we have about 200 people working at site right now, we're in the process of developing |
| 1:02.4 | the underground mine. |
| 1:04.6 | So since the coup, actually in this part of Niger, it's very quiet, and there hasn't been |
| 1:10.7 | any issues. |
| 1:11.8 | The country's borders have been closed. |
| 1:13.6 | How has that impacted your operations? |
| 1:16.9 | That is going to impact our operations, I say fairly soon, because of course a mine |
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