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Guinea

Population: 9.2 million
GNI: $3700 million
Debt: $2900 million
Overview: Reforming Premier Lansana Kouyaté's will come under pressure from regime conservatives and the increasingly strident trades unionists as oppositionists go back on to the streets.

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  • Vol 49 No 23
  • 14/11/2008

Towards Mali

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 gendarmes, commanded by Lieutenant Amadou Diogo Dramé, found 25 PMAK ...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

Iron ore, jaw-jaw

A tempting iron ore deposit on the Liberian border triggers fierce rivalries, national and international

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

Once more the President's man

A consensus premier is fired and the old guard’s man gets the job

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

King Bauxite

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 overcharging, fraud and bribery to the tune of more than US$1 billio...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  • 01/02/2008

One Conakry, two Lansanas

Rivalries between the President and his Prime Minister are exacerbating discontent within the trade unions and the military

  • Vol 49 No 3
  • 01/02/2008

Ordinary rendition

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 in Pretoria, South Africa, announcing it has ‘the honour to inform’ the Gui...

  • Vol 48 No 11
  • 25/05/2007

The troops see red

As soldiers riot and elections are postponed, even the African Union tells Conté it is time to go

  • Vol 48 No 8
  • 13/04/2007

Under new management

President Lansana Conté clings on, but with a new government and his power diluted

  • Vol 48 No 5
  • 02/03/2007

Trade union truce

The political truce which greeted President Lansana Conté's appointment of Lansana Kouyaté as Prime Minister will be short-lived unless there is a speedy transfer of power. The appointment of Kouyaté, a respected former UN diplomat...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Conté goes another round

The appointment of a presidential ally as new prime minister has worsened the confrontation on the streets

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