Vol 59 No 13 | BURKINA FASOGUINEATOGO Adieu à Françafrique 29th June 2018 The investigation of Vincent Bolloré highlights how the old business networks are losing influence in French former colonies When the French billionaire industrialist Vincent Bolloré was placed under formal investigation by Paris prosecutors on suspicion of bribing foreign officials in Africa, commentato...
Vol 59 No 11 | GUINEA Conté's long shadow 1st June 2018 Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is not merely Guinea's new prime minister. His appointment by President Alpha Condé marks a return of the cadre of politicians who came to prominence under ...
Vol 59 No 6 | GUINEA Nine angry men 23rd March 2018 During his inauguration in December 2015, President Alpha Condé was warned by Kéléfa Sall, the head of Guinea's Constitutional Court, to 'not fall for the sire...
Vol 58 No 10 | GUINEAUNITED STATES Thiam verdict makes waves 12th May 2017 After a six-day trial, former Mining Minister Mahmoud Thiam was convicted in a New York court on 3 May of laundering US$8.5 million in bribes relating to mining licence corruption ...
Vol 58 No 8 | GUINEA Sex, rebels and Paris trips 14th April 2017 President Condé steams ahead in the opinion polls but dissent within his party is growing as local elections approach The career of the governing party's youth leader came to an abrupt end in late February when the latest in a series of sex tapes which have been circulating in the capital went vir...
Vol 58 No 5 | GUINEA Compromise in Conakry 3rd March 2017 Protests organised by teachers' unions on 20 February left eight people dead and more than 50 injured, said reports from Conakry. The protesters' demands for salary increases were ...
Vol 58 No 2 | GUINEA Electoral test for Condé 20th January 2017 February's local elections will gauge Condé's popularity. The economy will stay in the doldrums Guinea will finally hold its local elections in February, almost seven years late. It is the first major test of the governing coalition of President Alpha Condé since his relative...
Vol 57 No 22 | GUINEA Rio quits Simandou 4th November 2016 Rio Tinto has finally called time on Simandou, one of the world's largest untapped iron ore deposits, by signing a non-binding agreement with its partner, the Aluminium Corporation...
Vol 57 No 17 | GUINEA Feds grab middleman 26th August 2016 The arrest of Samuel Mebiame by the US Department of Justice on 16 August is causing sleepless nights in Guinea, Chad and Niger. Son of the former Gabonese premiere Léon Meb...
Vol 57 No 16 | GUINEA It's fine by the AU 5th August 2016 The man who was Guinea's Acting President before the 2010 elections that brought Alpha Condé to office, General Sékouba Konaté, has kept an important African Union job despite bei...