Vol 49 No 23 | GUINEAMALI Towards Mali 14th November 2008 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 gend...
Vol 49 No 17 | GUINEA Iron ore, jaw-jaw 22nd August 2008 A tempting iron ore deposit on the Liberian border triggers fierce rivalries, national and international The shock must have been great when mining giant Rio Tinto was told on 4 August that it had just lost its greatest potential asset, the gigantic Simandou iron ore concession. The ...
Vol 49 No 12 | GUINEA Once more the President's man 6th June 2008 A consensus premier is fired and the old guard’s man gets the job He was supposed to be a consensus Prime Minister but he did not last long. Lansana Kouyaté, appointed in February 2007, after bloodshed and strikes had almost toppled President Lan...
Vol 49 No 6 | GUINEAUNITED STATES King Bauxite 14th March 2008 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...
Vol 49 No 3 | GUINEA One Conakry, two Lansanas 1st February 2008 Rivalries between the President and his Prime Minister are exacerbating discontent within the trade unions and the military The army stands in the wings, looking suspiciously at the government of the ailing President Lansana Conté, while Conté looks suspiciously at his 'consensus' Prime Mi...
Vol 49 No 3 | GUINEAMALIMOZAMBIQUE Ordinary rendition 1st February 2008 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 ...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 | GUINEACHINA Dam payment 28th October 2008 President Conté's ministers are the latest African team to negotiate a massive minerals-for-infrastructure countertrade deal Officials from Guinea’s Ministry of Mines are due in Beijing to negotiate a US$21 billion countertrade deal to swap bauxite and iron ore concessions for investments in dams, roads,...
Vol 48 No 11 | GUINEA The troops see red 25th May 2007 As soldiers riot and elections are postponed, even the African Union tells Conté it is time to go Gunfire in the night was only the start of it. After a relatively calm April, discontent has spread again. Soldiers have continued sporadic shooting to warn President Lansana Cont&...
Vol 48 No 8 | GUINEA Under new management 13th April 2007 President Lansana Conté clings on, but with a new government and his power diluted The appointment of Lansana Kouyaté as Prime Minister could be a turning point in Guinea's long crisis, or an attempt to shore up a crumbling dyke. Kouyaté's nominatio...
Vol 48 No 5 | GUINEA Trade union truce 2nd March 2007 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 ...