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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
On 21 August 2026 Niger's Council of Ministers, under the presidency of General Abdourahamane Tiani, awarded two large-scale uranium exploitation permits. The In Azaoua perimeter (Arlit Commune, Agadez Region) — the ground previously worked by the Orano-majority Société des Mines de l'Aïr (SOMAÏR), nationalised June 2025 — was granted to TSUMCO SA (Teloua Safeguarding Uranium Mining Company), the wholly state-owned successor operator created in May 2026. The Madaouela I permit (Arlit Urban Commune), previously held by Canada's GoviEx Uranium before reverting to the public domain on 31 July 2024, was re-attributed to Madaouela Mining Company (MAMICO), now 60%-held by Australia's Atomic Eagle (GoviEx's restructured successor) and 40% by the Nigerien State — up from a prior minority state stake. MAMICO paid a $10 million redevance forfaitaire to the state and committed to roughly 1,000 local jobs and local-content procurement.
Niger's military-led Conseil des Ministres (CNSP) on March 3, 2026 adopted three decrees terminating the establishment agreements of COMINI SARL, AFRIOR SA, and ECOMINE SA — gold mining and refining companies operating in Niger. The grounds cited are failure to pay taxes, non-submission of annual technical and financial reports, and breach of local-development financing commitments since 2023. Formal notices had been issued to the companies on February 17 and July 23, 2025 before the terminations. The action extends the CNSP's systematic tightening over strategic-resource industries, which also saw uranium licence revocations and a mine nationalisation in 2024–2025.