EcoWatch: More than 60 percent of Niger`s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity.
Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium--one of the few resources the world`s poorest country still has.
Areva has operated in northern Niger for four decades, according to Keith Slack, the global program manager of Oxfam America`s Extractive Industries team. The French government owns about 80 percent of the...