Two coups in Mali in less than 10 months a failed putsch on the eve of the inauguration of Niger's President in April and now the overthrow of Alpha Condé in Guinea (AC Vol 62 No 18 Sidelined legionnaire grabs the reins)...

With President Alpha Condé detained and reportedly willing to die rather than resign the CNRD has started talking to opposition leaders including former prime ministers Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré...

HOW GEOPOLITICS PLAYS OUT IN GUINEA'S MINES China's condemnation of the coup in Guinea and demands for Alpha Condé's release breaks with its usual reluctance to speak out on internal politics and its declared policy of non-interference...

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 presidential palace in the small hours of 5 September...

The junta has offered to free former President Alpha Condé if he makes a public resignation speech...

When Steinmetz and Guinean President Alpha Condé provisionally agreed to resolve their differences in 2019 they signed a document saying that Niron would take over Zogota and that Niron would pay Guinea $50 million...

French prosecutor Serge Tournaire charged him in April 2018 with funding the election campaign of Guinea's President Alpha Condé in 2010 the same year that Gnassingbé earned his largesse...

Wazni who has the ear of President Alpha Condé also chairs the board of Chinese-Singapore-Guinean consortium Société Minière de Boké...

The deal immediately raised suspicions and when long-time opposition leader Alpha Condé became Guinea's first democratically elected president in 2011 he opened a review of mining contracts issued under previous presidents (AC Vol 53 No 4 The gamble for Simandou)...

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 a much-disputed third term in office...

Today Issoufou is earning international plaudits for stepping down at the end of his second mandate as the term limit requires – rather than seeking to amend it as his Guinean and Ivorian counterparts Alpha Condé and Alassane Ouattara have done (AC Vol 61 No 22 Condé shrugs off poll doubts & Ouattara sweeps half the board)...