Vol 63 No 1 | GUINEAAFRICA IN 2022 No timeline for return to civil rule 6th January 2022 Chinese mining deals will help the junta fight off international pressure to hold elections, and withstand sanctions On 27 December, prime minister Mohamed Béavogui presented his government's roadmap back to civilian rule to Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who has ruled Guinea since a coup last ...
Vol 62 No 23 | GUINEA Conakry gets its new class 18th November 2021 Most of the 27 ministers in Guinea's new cabinet picked by junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya are mostly youngish and mostly technocratic. Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui...
Vol 62 No 20 | GUINEA Mines ministry contenders 7th October 2021 One month into the coup that removed President Alpha Condé from power, Guinea's new military leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya is keeping everyone guessing as to how a new gov...
Vol 62 No 19 | GUINEA Junta opens transition talks 16th September 2021 Lt Col Doumbouya launches consultations as mining companies fret and fears grow of a new military era in the region The country's latest military junta, led by former French legionnaire Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, promises it will form a national unity government , without specifying a ...
Vol 62 No 18 | GUINEA Sidelined legionnaire grabs the reins 9th September 2021 Fights over military organisation and President Condé's tumbling legitimacy set the stage for Colonel Doumbouya's putsch A decade after being sworn into office by judges in vermilion and ermine, President Alpha Condé of Guinea became the prisoner of an elite military unit that stormed the presidentia... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 18 | GUINEA Regional summit due to meet Thursday on post-coup crisis 7th September 2021 West African leaders are preparing to negotiate with the Conakry putschists a year after the coup in Mali Within hours of Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and his men seizing power in Conakry in the morning of 5 September and arresting President Alpha Condé, regional leaders were callin... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 8 | GUINEA Human rights, export rights 15th April 2021 As iron ore prices rocket, mining companies in eastern Guinea face up to the fallout from a massacre, and battle over export licences Mick 'the miner' Davis, one of the latest players to enter the scramble for Guinea's iron ore riches, is facing opposition from both local communities and the mining ministry in hi...
Vol 62 No 5 | GUINEA Mining tycoon's mercy flight 4th March 2021 The first new Ebola case was a 51-year-old nurse from Gouécké, in the far south of Guinea, who fell ill on 18 January and died 10 days later. Her funeral spread the outbreak, which...
Vol 62 No 3 | GUINEAMINING Steinmetz's empire unravels 4th February 2021 The mining magnate is appealing his bribery conviction while a law suit in Paris could put his entire fortune in peril The five-year jail sentence handed down to Beny Steinmetz by Geneva's Tribunal Correctionnel on 22 January will embolden former partners pursuing his sprawling business empire for ...
Vol 62 No 3 | GUINEAMINING Steinmetz gets five years for bribery 22nd January 2021 Judge Alexandra Banna in Geneva says that 'Steinmetz was the main beneficiary' of a criminal operation to secure mining rights in Guinea. 'All important decisions were taken with his agreement' A Geneva court sentenced mining magnate Beny Steinmetz to five years in prison on 22 January for bribery and money-laundering. The bribes were paid to obtain rights to mine the vas... READ FOR FREE