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Guinea
Population: 10.3 mn.
GDP: 4.6 bn.
Debt: 2.0 bn.
Overview:

Stability will depend on credible parliamentary elections this year, following President Alpha Condé's attempted rapprochement with the opposition. Slow progress on mining sector reforms and sceptical foreign companies are holding back bauxite and iron ore developments. 

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  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Condé talks to rivals

Regional diplomacy has dampened down another political confrontation as the President tries to relaunch the mineral-rich economy

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

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). As i...

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

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). The alumini...

  • Vol 52 No 15
  •  22nd July 2011

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. General Nouhou Thiam, who was Ch...

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Condé drives a hard bargain

Before parliamentary elections in November, the government is rewriting the mining code and reviewing contracts

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

Tough questions for Condé

The suppression of an opposition rally and concerns about the anti-corruption team raise doubts about Condé’s commitment to reform

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

George Soros offers some tips

President Alpha Condé has invited the United States billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros to advise on a new mining code which, the President says, will facilitate ‘the struggle against bribes and corruption in the country’. Surprisingly, ...

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Over the new rainbow

Election winner Alpha Condé’s promise of national reconciliation is put to the test as his opponents’ supporters take their disputes to the street

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Condé’s hard won victory

It has taken Alpha Condé three attempts, a long battle with military regimes and incarceration and torture by one of them to win his country’s presidency. Condé was born in 1938 in the aluminium town of Boké, in the coastal region. In the 1960s and 70s, h...

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

Odds now on Condé

Former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo is no longer the favourite to win the second round of the presidential elections, due on 24 October, after several sackings at the Commission électorale nationale indépendante. His rival and long-ti...

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