Guinea

Guinea

Population: 10.9 mn.
GDP: 5.7 bn.
Debt: 2.9 bn.
Overview:

Long-delayed parliamentary elections are planned for May, but if there is no deal with opposition parties they will again be postponed. President Alpha Condé's government will win plaudits for its macroeconomic reforms but come under critical scrutiny for the lack of transparency in iron ore and other mineral deals. Chinese companies are likely to benefit from new mining concession deals.

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  • Vol 54 No 9
  •  26th April 2013

The fight for Mount Simandou

Mining houses, politicians, lawyers and lobbyists have joined the battle for control of one of the richest iron-ore mines in the world

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Condé’s rainbow fades away

His election brought expectations of an end to impunity, corruption and poverty but support has leached away and now civil unrest is taking hold

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Shocks and ore bodies

This year, President Alpha Condé has consistently attempted to reassure investors that major projects, especially in mining, will go ahead as planned. ‘We are doing our best to help the companies achieve their ambitions,’ he declared at the World Economic...

  • Vol 54 No 3
  •  1st February 2013

Torture in the dock

The trial of soldiers accused of attempting to assassinate President Alpha Condé is not going well for the prosecution. The principal defendant, an officer called Alpha Oumar Boffa Diallo, known as AOB, says he was tortured into implicating leaders of the...

  • Vol 53 No 20
  •  5th October 2012

Miners get bad reviews

Beny Steinmetz Resource Group and Rusal are in the government’s sights as it prepares to publish its review of the major mining contracts

  • Vol 53 No 15
  •  19th July 2012

Sam with a plan

The fog around Samuel Mebiame is clearing. His signature appears,along with those of ministers Mohamed Lamine Fofana and KerfallaYansané, on the controversial loan Guinea took from the South African company Palladino Capital 2 Limited. Mebiane, 42, is the...

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

A new battle to control the mines

The collapse of an opaque scheme to set up a multi-billion dollar national mining company prompts recriminations in Conakry and South Africa

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

Who's who in the Guinea loan saga

• Walter Hennig, Chief Executive Officer of Palladino, a South African. The considerable fortune enjoyed by the Hennig family comes mainly from diamond trading and farming, though Walter Hennig has diversified into other mining operations and financial se...

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

The Italian job

A favourite of the old regime risks losing his property fortune under the new one

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Condé looks East and West

Rivalries among conglomerates – Western and Chinese – intensify as the President looks for development funds

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