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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 48 No 3
  •  2nd February 2007

The strike that shook Conté

As tensions rise, both the President and his civilian opponents will lose if the military launches a coup d'état

  • Vol 48 No 3
  •  2nd February 2007

Two peas in a pod

El Hadj Mamadou Sylla, a businessman, and Fodé Soumah, formerly Deputy Governor of Guinea's Central Bank, vigorously protest their innocence of the corruption charges pending trial on which they were held last year.

  • Vol 48 No 2
  •  19th January 2007

Bad moon rising

A general strike launched by two trades unions, the Confédération Nationale des Travilleurs de Guinée and Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Guinée, on 10 January is threatening President Lansana Conté's grip on power. ...

  • Vol 47 No 23
  •  17th November 2006

Presidential chopper

Congolese President Joseph Kabila's campaign helicopter is at the centre of a legal battle between Belgian businessman Philippe de Moerloose and Guinea's Paramount Airlines' Ismaël Doukouré.

  • Vol 47 No 17
  •  25th August 2006

Countdown for Conté

After almost a week of 'medical checks' in Switzerland, President Lansana Conté's quiet return on 17 August was marked only by a brief statement, without pictures, on state television. In May, after his last medical trip, he was greeted by a huge c...

  • Vol 47 No 13
  •  23rd June 2006

Starting guns

The new government has started by shooting school children. On 12 June, five died in Conakry, two in Nzérékoré, some 970 kilometres south-east of the capital, and four in Labé, around 430 km. to the north, religious capital of ...

  • Vol 47 No 12
  •  9th June 2006

At the sick bed

Fodé Bangoura is preparing for the presidency. In April, he helped the ailing President Lansana Conté to oust Premier Cellou Dallein Diallo and eleven other ministers. Then on 29 May, he consolidated his power by arranging another reshuffle ...

  • Vol 47 No 10
  •  12th May 2006

Who's in charge here?

A sick president, a one-day government, a broken economy. What next?

  • Vol 46 No 11
  •  27th May 2005

Vultures gather

Military officers and regional warlords jockey for power as the President's condition worsens

  • Vol 46 No 11
  •  27th May 2005

Through a glass very darkly

Closely watching the succession in Conakry are West African presidents, warlords and diplomats. Their central calculation is that what's good for Liberia's exiled warlord Charles Taylor will be bad for Guinea. Although they differ on details, recent repor...

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