Multinational corporations and anti-corruption activists are jockeying for influence in Conakry as President Alpha Condé talks to the China Development Bank about finance for a US$8...
Hard choices confront President Alpha Condé as he comes under pressure to set a date for parliamentary elections this year...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
They were left out in the cold by President Alpha Condé in 2011 (AAC Vol 4 No 11 Pulling away CIF's welcome mat) but the businessmen behind the China International Fund are making a comeback in Guinea’s private sector...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
Despite support from groups like George Soros’s Open Society Institute President Alpha Condé’s government persists in striking troublesome mining deals...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
Since President Alpha Condé came to power in November 2010 his government has made little progress in unscrambling the many opaque mining and infrastructure contracts set up by successive military governments...
The parliamentary elections due on 29 December have been postponed until early next year following a meeting between President Alpha Condé and opposition leaders on 15 November under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States...
Since the assassination attempt in July President Alpha Condé has shut himself up in the Sékoutouréyah palace behind a massive guard some trained by his ally President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (AC Vol 52 No 15 Presidential guard fall out)...
President Alpha Condé is being consulted about bringing charges against any Guinean nationals who may have taken bribes from Victor Dahdaleh a former senior Guinean official told Africa Confidential (AC Vol 50 No 2 A popular putsch so far)...
The four Presidents – Benin’s Thomas Yayi Boni Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara Guinea’s Alpha Condé and Niger’s Mahamadou Issoufou – present themselves as symbols of a new democratic wave in Francophone Africa...
The two armed attacks on President Alpha Condé that claimed three lives on the night of 19 July are part of the struggle between old and new members of the Presidential Guard for control of this key military unit we hear...