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...
Vol 50 No 22 | GUINEA Soldiers out of their depth 6th November 2009 In the aftermath of the 28 September massacre, the junta faces sanctions and seems to have lost its way International pressure is growing on Guinea's military junta, shut away with its weaponry in Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo in Conakry. France has cut off its military cooperation and...
Vol 50 No 22 | BURKINA FASOGUINEA To catch a thief 6th November 2009 The choice of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré as chief mediator in Guinea's worsening crisis is curious, given that the Burkinabé leader, in league with Liberian warlord Charles...
Vol 50 No 20 | GUINEA Gunning down democracy 8th October 2009 Condemned for massacring its own people, the junta negotiates an economic lifeline with China More than 157 unarmed demonstrators were shot down on 28 September by soldiers using rifles, daggers, machetes and iron bars. It was a straightforward massacre. Those killed...
Vol 50 No 13 | GUINEA Camara's reality television 26th June 2009 Conakry's military leader regularly berates drug traffickers and corrupt businesses on the state media but is extending his stay in office Many Guineans like Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's tough talk on state television and his increasingly tough actions, such as the mass arrests of suspected drug traffickers. Yet the...