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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 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

The junta explains

The putschists use former Pentagon officials to polish their image

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 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
  •  22nd January 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 of ...

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 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 'Toumba...

  • Vol 50 No 22
  •  6th November 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
  •  6th November 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 under ...

  • Vol 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

Gunning down democracy

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

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 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
  •  23rd January 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
  •  23rd January 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 Construc...

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