Guinea

Guinea

Population: 10.1 million
GDP: $2100 million
Debt: $22.9% of GDP
Overview:

The serious wounding of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in a gun battle in December will delay the elections due in early 2010; the growing military factionalism raises doubts about promises to hand over to civilians.

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  • Vol 50 No 25
  • 18/12/2009

Toumba on the run

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. A former aide now on the run, Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité 'To...

  • Vol 50 No 22
  • 06/11/2009

Soldiers out of their depth

In the aftermath of the 28 September massacre, the junta faces sanctions and seems to have lost its way

  • Vol 50 No 22
  • 06/11/2009

To catch a thief

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 un...

  • Vol 50 No 20
  • 08/10/2009

Gunning down democracy

Condemned for massacring its own people, the junta negotiates an economic lifeline with China

  • Vol 50 No 13
  • 26/06/2009

Camara's reality television

Conakry's military leader regularly berates drug traffickers and corrupt businesses on the state media but is extending his stay in office

  • Vol 50 No 2
  • 23/01/2009

A popular putsch, so far

The junta is purging the army, reviewing mining contracts and has been given just six months to organise elections

  • Vol 50 No 2
  • 23/01/2009

The new men under fire

Some of the Comité National pour le Développement et la Démocratie junta's appointments have been heavily criticised. Chief among these is military leader Moussa Dadis Camara's old friend, Boubacar Barry, an architect, as provisional Minister for Cons...

  • 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

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