Vol 51 No 2 | GUINEA Who's who in the junta and beyond 22nd January 2010 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...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GUINEACHINA More contracts as the vote looms 21st October 2010 Despite the impending transition to civil rule, the military regime has signed a mega-contract with the China Hyway Group for housing and roads As political candidates and generals were locked in negotations about the second round of the presidential elections due by the end of October, interim President General Sékouba Konaté...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GUINEACHINA China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal 21st October 2010 In return for huge investments in housing and roads, the China Hyway Group has asked for several mining permits that would give it access to at least...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | GUINEACHINA And the winner is...the CIF 20th July 2010 The shadowy China International Fund believes that its political contacts will protect its deals after the election The continuing power of Mines Minister Mahmoud Thiam and the prospect that he will wield influence after the second round of the presidential elections next month is good news for the...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | GUINEACHINA CIF sitting pretty in Guinea 20th July 2010 As one of the anchors in the proposed trans-Guinea railway, the China International Fund may consider its position in Guinea unassailable. However, the Bellzone/CIF deal is already persuading other companies that...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 8 | GUINEACHINAAUSTRALIA Building an improbable railway 17th June 2010 There are two big problems with the new deal between the China International Fund and the small Australian mining company Bellzone announced in Conakry on 24 May to...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 6 | GUINEACHINA More ore, more problems 22nd April 2010 A US$3.3 million loan offered by the China International Fund has drawn renewed criticism of the company’s activities in Guinea. On 1 March, Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé, a member...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 | GUINEACHINA New pressure on China deals 15th March 2010 The new government is divided on demands for a review of the $7bn China International Fund contracts
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 | GUINEACHINA The junta rewards new friends 26th November 2009 Conakry begins stripping foreign companies of mining and oil assets for its Chinese partners as those partners turn towards Zimbabwe While some were left asking if the US$7 billion deal signed by the China International Fund and its sister company China Sonangol International in early October had actually...
Vol 50 No 25 | GUINEA Toumba on the run 18th December 2009 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...