Vol 58 No 2 | GUINEA Electoral test for Condé 20th January 2017 February's local elections will gauge Condé's popularity. The economy will stay in the doldrums Guinea will finally hold its local elections in February, almost seven years late. It is the first major test of the governing coalition of President Alpha Condé since...
Vol 57 No 22 | GUINEA Rio quits Simandou 4th November 2016 Rio Tinto has finally called time on Simandou, one of the world's largest untapped iron ore deposits, by signing a non-binding agreement with its partner, the Aluminium Corporation...
Vol 57 No 17 | GUINEA Feds grab middleman 26th August 2016 The arrest of Samuel Mebiame by the US Department of Justice on 16 August is causing sleepless nights in Guinea, Chad and Niger. Son of the former Gabonese...
Vol 57 No 16 | GUINEA It's fine by the AU 5th August 2016 The man who was Guinea's Acting President before the 2010 elections that brought Alpha Condé to office, General Sékouba Konaté, has kept an important African Union job...
Vol 57 No 13 | GUINEA Condé follows regional lead 24th June 2016 The president hopes an appeal to 'the people' will allow him to change the constitution so he can stand for a third term Eight months into his second term, President Alpha Condé is barely concealing his desire for a third term even if this means overturning the 2010 Constitution, which...
Vol 57 No 10 | GUINEALIBERIAMINING Sable's rich seam of bribes 13th May 2016 A mining company sought to open doors throughout West Africa with bribes, a huge leak of internal emails shows Senior politicians in the governments of Guinea and Liberia took bribes from the publicly quoted British company Sable Mining Africa Limited to facilitate access to valuable mining concessions,... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 7 | GUINEA Stop-go Simandou 18th March 2016 The President is trying to keep up hope for the massive iron mine even though its value has been written down by $1 billion Guinea's recently re-elected President Alpha Condé has adopted a conciliatory tone towards mining company Rio Tinto over its sluggish development of the Simandou iron-ore mine, despite the British-Australian...
Vol 57 No 4 | GUINEA Condé strikes out on his own 10th February 2016 The president's efforts to stamp out corruption are meeting resistance from loyalists seeking rewards, while the opposition goes into freefall President Alpha Condé is enjoying the freedom of manoeuvre that his second and final term of office has given him. He has picked a cabinet of ministers of...
Vol 56 No 22 | GUINEA Condé consolidates as opposition regroups 23rd October 2015 Street protests and complaints of electoral fraud are unlikely to shake the incumbent, who has strong diplomatic and commercial backing from abroad Despite the opposition parties' simmering anger and protestors clashing with police this week in Conakry, President Alpha Condé looks set to hold on to his first round victory...
Vol 56 No 21 | GUINEA Condé's surprising knockout 22nd October 2015 'One Strike – Knockout!' That was the message from those who engineered President Alpha Condé's first round victory in the 11 October presidential election, with 57.9% of the...