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...
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,...
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...
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 nomination...
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 power. The appointment...
Vol 48 No 4 | GUINEA Conté goes another round 16th February 2007 The appointment of a presidential ally as new prime minister has worsened the confrontation on the streets More than 60 deaths during the January general strike failed to soften President Lansana Conté who is embroiled in another - perhaps terminal - round of confrontation with...
Vol 48 No 3 | GUINEA The strike that shook Conté 2nd February 2007 As tensions rise, both the President and his civilian opponents will lose if the military launches a coup d'état Union strikers and opposition demonstrators have secured a tactical victory against President Lansana Conté's regime after three weeks of protests, during which, in January, more than 60 people...
Vol 48 No 3 | GUINEA Two peas in a pod 2nd February 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 2 | GUINEA Bad moon rising 19th January 2007 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...
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.