General Sékouba Konaté had tried to escape the corridors of power during the 2008 coup but destiny caught up with him a year later following the December 2009 shooting of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
Despite this and although it was negotiated more discreetly the Hyway Group contract could meet the same sort of hostile opposition as last year’s US$7 billion China International Fund minerals deal (AAC Vol 2 No 12) signed under the rule of the junta led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
The CIF which first secured extensive mining and oil rights in Guinea under the junta of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara enjoys good relations with the interim government of General Sékouba Konaté...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 7 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
’ In Conakry Captain Moussa Dadis Camara’s soldiers had just killed more than 100 civilians and raped scores of women outside the main stadium on 28 September...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 6 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
Baldé excoriated the $7 billion in contracts that CIF and partner China Sonangol controversially signed in October 2009 with the military junta then led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
President Konaté has taken over from the coup leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara who was the victim of an assassination attempt by his aide de camp Lieutenant Sidiki ‘Toumba’ Diakité on 3 December 2009...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara’s Chinese partners would also not be opposed to getting control of the large bauxite reserves at Dian-Dian controlled by Russia’s RusAl...
More military infighting looms following a shoot-out on 3 December in which junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was hit in the head and then flown to Morocco for medical treatment...
These sanctions include freezing assets held abroad by the junta and its associates and a travel ban on its leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara and General Sékouba Konaté and other soldiers directly implicated in the 28 September massacres...
The choice of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré as chief mediator in Guinea's worsening crisis is curious given that the Burkinabé leader in league with Liberian warlord Charles Taylor had been plotting against the previous Guinean regime under Lieutenant General Lansana Conté: many of Conté's senior officers now serve Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's regime...