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Alpha Condé

Date of Birth: 4 March 1938
Place of Birth: Boké, French Guinea (Guinea)


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CIF goes private for profit in Guinea

They were left out in the cold by President Alpha Condé in 2011 (AAC Vol 4 No 11 Pulling away CIF's welcome mat) but the businessmen behind the China International Fund are making a comeback in Guinea’s private sector...


Condé’s great giveaway

Despite support from groups like George Soros’s Open Society Institute President Alpha Condé’s government persists in striking troublesome mining deals...


Condé wants quick results

Since President Alpha Condé came to power in November 2010 his government has made little progress in unscrambling the many opaque mining and infrastructure contracts set up by successive military governments...


Condé talks to rivals

The parliamentary elections due on 29 December have been postponed until early next year following a meeting between President Alpha Condé and opposition leaders on 15 November under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States...


Palace plotters

Since the assassination attempt in July President Alpha Condé has shut himself up in the Sékoutouréyah palace behind a massive guard some trained by his ally President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (AC Vol 52 No 15 Presidential guard fall out)...


Condé to look at Dahdaleh case

President Alpha Condé is being consulted about bringing charges against any Guinean nationals who may have taken bribes from Victor Dahdaleh a former senior Guinean official told Africa Confidential (AC Vol 50 No 2 A popular putsch so far)...


Favourite four

The four Presidents – Benin’s Thomas Yayi Boni Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara Guinea’s Alpha Condé and Niger’s Mahamadou Issoufou – present themselves as symbols of a new democratic wave in Francophone Africa...


Presidential guard fall out

The two armed attacks on President Alpha Condé that claimed three lives on the night of 19 July are part of the struggle between old and new members of the Presidential Guard for control of this key military unit we hear...


Condé drives a hard bargain

Beyond the bonhomie and the stream of foreign dignitaries trooping to see President Alpha Condé in Conakry evidence is emerging of grand corruption in public works and mining contracts under the previous military regimes (AC Vol 52 No 8 Tough questions for Condé and George Soros offers some tips)...


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