Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 | ANGOLAGUINEACHINA How the Sino-Angolan alliance works 19th October 2009 The China International Fund (CIF) was born in the aftermath of Angola's civil war as the Luanda government embarked on Africa's costliest post-war reconstruction, fuelled by oil...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 | GUINEACHINA Contract confusion 22nd May 2009 The junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's order that all mining licences are subject to immediate revocation if the government does not approve of their development plans ha...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 | GUINEACHINABRIEFING The new Conakry order 20th February 2009 Despite a show of insouciance after December's putsch led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in Conakry, China's diplomats and business leaders are closely watching the new regime's po...
Vol 49 No 23 | GUINEAMALI Towards Mali 14th November 2008 Last week's discovery of a consignment of weapons in a car en route to Mali raises yet more questions about corruption and divisions within Guinea's security forces. A team of gend...
Vol 49 No 17 | GUINEA Iron ore, jaw-jaw 22nd August 2008 A tempting iron ore deposit on the Liberian border triggers fierce rivalries, national and international The shock must have been great when mining giant Rio Tinto was told on 4 August that it had just lost its greatest potential asset, the gigantic Simandou iron ore concession. The ...
Vol 49 No 12 | GUINEA Once more the President's man 6th June 2008 A consensus premier is fired and the old guard’s man gets the job He was supposed to be a consensus Prime Minister but he did not last long. Lansana Kouyaté, appointed in February 2007, after bloodshed and strikes had almost toppled President Lan...
Vol 49 No 6 | GUINEAUNITED STATES King Bauxite 14th March 2008 Known as the Bauxite King, Victor Dahdaleh is at the centre of a US case in which the Gulf State of Bahrain accuses him and the US company Alcoa of running a conspiracy involving...
Vol 49 No 3 | GUINEA One Conakry, two Lansanas 1st February 2008 Rivalries between the President and his Prime Minister are exacerbating discontent within the trade unions and the military The army stands in the wings, looking suspiciously at the government of the ailing President Lansana Conté, while Conté looks suspiciously at his 'consensus' Prime Mi...
Vol 49 No 3 | GUINEAMALIMOZAMBIQUE Ordinary rendition 1st February 2008 A diplomatic storm is brewing as Mozambican police crack down on West Africans they accuse of being illegal miners. The formal tone of a letter from the Mozambican High Commission ...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 | GUINEACHINA Dam payment 28th October 2008 President Conté's ministers are the latest African team to negotiate a massive minerals-for-infrastructure countertrade deal Officials from Guinea’s Ministry of Mines are due in Beijing to negotiate a US$21 billion countertrade deal to swap bauxite and iron ore concessions for investments in dams, roads,...