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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. 

Guinea Country Report

 


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  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Election delays and doubts

The sudden postponement of the 19 September second round of the presidential election raises fresh doubts about the military’s commitment to handing over power and the prospect of a tougher line on foreign mining companies. The postponement followed a mee...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

All to play for

The military organisers of the presidential election claim that they are neutral and that the candidates are evenly matched

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Expanding the contracts

Several mining companies took advantage of Guinea’s political transition to sign contracts in exchange for shining promises of future wealth. Both the candidates in the second round of the presidential election have promised to review these contracts in t...

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 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
  •  9th July 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 m...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 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
  •  25th June 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 mad...

  • Vol 51 No 11
  •  28th May 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
  •  28th May 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
  •  14th May 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 ore f...

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