Vol 47 No 23 | GUINEACONGO-KINSHASA Presidential chopper 17th November 2006 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 | GUINEA Countdown for Conté 25th August 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 13 | GUINEA Starting guns 23rd June 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 12 | GUINEA At the sick bed 9th June 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 10 | GUINEA Who's in charge here? 12th May 2006 A sick president, a one-day government, a broken economy. What next? Nobody seems to be in charge of Guinea. The authority of the state and the economy of the world's second largest bauxite producer (after Australia) have steadily dwindled...