Vol 62 No 19 | GUINEA Junta opens transition talks 16th September 2021 Lt Col Doumbouya launches consultations as mining companies fret and fears grow of a new military era in the region The country's latest military junta, led by former French legionnaire Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, promises it will form a national unity government , without specifying a ...
Vol 62 No 18 | GUINEA Sidelined legionnaire grabs the reins 9th September 2021 Fights over military organisation and President Condé's tumbling legitimacy set the stage for Colonel Doumbouya's putsch A decade after being sworn into office by judges in vermilion and ermine, President Alpha Condé of Guinea became the prisoner of an elite military unit that stormed the presidentia... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 18 | GUINEA Regional summit due to meet Thursday on post-coup crisis 7th September 2021 West African leaders are preparing to negotiate with the Conakry putschists a year after the coup in Mali Within hours of Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and his men seizing power in Conakry in the morning of 5 September and arresting President Alpha Condé, regional leaders were callin... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 8 | GUINEA Human rights, export rights 15th April 2021 As iron ore prices rocket, mining companies in eastern Guinea face up to the fallout from a massacre, and battle over export licences Mick 'the miner' Davis, one of the latest players to enter the scramble for Guinea's iron ore riches, is facing opposition from both local communities and the mining ministry in hi...
Vol 62 No 5 | GUINEA Mining tycoon's mercy flight 4th March 2021 The first new Ebola case was a 51-year-old nurse from Gouécké, in the far south of Guinea, who fell ill on 18 January and died 10 days later. Her funeral spread the outbreak, which...
Vol 62 No 3 | GUINEAMINING Steinmetz's empire unravels 4th February 2021 The mining magnate is appealing his bribery conviction while a law suit in Paris could put his entire fortune in peril The five-year jail sentence handed down to Beny Steinmetz by Geneva's Tribunal Correctionnel on 22 January will embolden former partners pursuing his sprawling business empire for ...
Vol 62 No 3 | GUINEAMINING Steinmetz gets five years for bribery 22nd January 2021 Judge Alexandra Banna in Geneva says that 'Steinmetz was the main beneficiary' of a criminal operation to secure mining rights in Guinea. 'All important decisions were taken with his agreement' A Geneva court sentenced mining magnate Beny Steinmetz to five years in prison on 22 January for bribery and money-laundering. The bribes were paid to obtain rights to mine the vas... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 2 | GUINEAMINING EXCLUSIVE – Inside the Swiss charges against Steinmetz 21st January 2021 As Beny Steinmetz awaits the judges' verdict, we probe the prosecution's accusations of money-laundering and grand corruption It was dubbed the 'deal of the century' – an operation to obtain rights to the world's biggest iron ore deposit – but became a quagmire, sucking its protagonists into a corruption ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 61 No 25 | GUINEA Condé’s iron resolve 17th December 2020 Having won a controversial third term, President Alpha Condé is eyeing growing mineral riches The long-delayed development of Guinea's headline-grabbing Simandou iron ore project has once again climbed to the top of President Alpha Condé's agenda, as he settles into ...
Vol 61 No 22 | GUINEA Condé shrugs off poll doubts 30th October 2020 The incumbent's victory, contested by the opposition and questioned by the European Union, gives him more control of the state than ever Whether his win with 59.49% of the votes in the 18 October elections was credible or not matters little to President Alpha Condé and his governing team. On 24 October, the C...
