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- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
A second, tougher round
Business ties, ethnic politics and elite intrigues will shape a close race in the run-off for the presidency
- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
Minister Thiam covers his bases
Mahmoud Thiam, the energetic mines minister and former senior staffer at Union de Banques Suisses, insists that his decisions over the past 18 months are not reversible – especially his move to strip western mining conglomerate Rio Tinto of its iron ore ...
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
High-stakes election
Over $10 billion of mining investment ride on the outcome of this election – and its military organisers are determined to maintain their influence
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
Mine not yours
Ahead of the 27 June elections (see Feature), the military regime has warned Rio Tinto to accept formally that it has lost two blocks of the giant Simandou iron ore concession – or face losing a further two blocks. President and General Sékouba Konaté ...
- Vol 51 No 11
- 28/05/2010
Votes and the mining houses
A heavy crop of parties will contest next month’s election but the real contest is about controlling mineral rights
- Vol 51 No 11
- 28/05/2010
Promising contracts
Guinea’s interim government has seen through several big developments in the mineral sector, in spite of an agreement that no new deals be ratified until after June’s elections. In April, the Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz sold 51% of his Guinean oper...
- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Beny’s railway coup
The colourful Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz has finalised two remarkable deals this year: he has sold 51% of his iron ore mining operations in Guinea to Brazil’s Vale for US$2.5 billion and he has just persuaded the Conakry government to export o...
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
The junta explains
The putschists use former Pentagon officials to polish their image
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Democratic moves after the exit of Dadis
The shooting of the former junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, has triggered his exile and fresh talks about elections this year
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Who's who in the junta and beyond
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. Officially, Sékouba Konaté is Third Vice-President...
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