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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 49 No 23
  •  14th November 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 ass...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

Iron ore, jaw-jaw

A tempting iron ore deposit on the Liberian border triggers fierce rivalries, national and international

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 2008

Once more the President's man

A consensus premier is fired and the old guard’s man gets the job

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

King Bauxite

Known as the Bauxite King, Victor Dahdaleh is at the centre of a US case in which the Gulf State of Bahrain accuses him and the US company Alcoa of running a conspiracy involving overcharging, fraud and bribery to the tune of more than US$1 billion. The...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

One Conakry, two Lansanas

Rivalries between the President and his Prime Minister are exacerbating discontent within the trade unions and the military

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

Ordinary rendition

A diplomatic storm is brewing as Mozambican police crack down on West Africans they accuse of being illegal miners. The formal tone of a letter from the Mozambican High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, announcing it has ‘the honour to inform’ the Gui...

  • Vol 48 No 11
  •  25th May 2007

The troops see red

As soldiers riot and elections are postponed, even the African Union tells Conté it is time to go

  • Vol 48 No 8
  •  13th April 2007

Under new management

President Lansana Conté clings on, but with a new government and his power diluted

  • Vol 48 No 5
  •  2nd March 2007

Trade union truce

The political truce which greeted President Lansana Conté's appointment of Lansana Kouyaté as Prime Minister will be short-lived unless there is a speedy transfer of power. The appointment of Kouyaté, a respected former UN diplomat on...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  •  16th February 2007

Conté goes another round

The appointment of a presidential ally as new prime minister has worsened the confrontation on the streets

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