Alpha Condé

In early June Guinea’s President Alpha Condé set the tone for more tense negotiations with mining investors when he declared that Chinese-style mines-for-infrastructure deals are unacceptable...

On 24 January new President Alpha Condé backtracked on promises to review mining contracts saying that the government would instead review policy for future deals and increase its stake in current projects...

Rio’s executives rushed to meet president-elect Alpha Condé in December while Steinmetz attended his 21 December inauguration...

After President Alpha Condé’s inauguration on 21 December North Korean Ambassador Ri Kyong-son paid a visit to new Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Camara...

The first test started within hours of the announcement on 15 November of the victory of Alpha Condé in the second round of the presidential election with 52...

It has taken Alpha Condé three attempts a long battle with military regimes and incarceration and torture by one of them to win his country’s presidency...

His rival and long-time oppositionist Alpha Condé had accused CENI directors of presiding over electoral abuses which he claimed favoured Diallo in the first round of voting...

The postponement followed a meeting at the office of Prime Minister Jean-Marie Doré which included the two candidates Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé; interim President General Sékouba Konaté; his trusted Secretary General to the Presidency Tibou Camara; the two Vice-Presidents of the Conseil National de Transition the de facto legislature created to oversee the transition; and representatives from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Political Affairs and the Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI)...

Contesting are Cellou Dalein Diallo once Prime Minister under President Lansana Conté and Alpha Condé who has always been in opposition...

Former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and long-time oppositionist Alpha Condé will battle it out in the second round of the presidential elections due on 18 July...

The first came in early June when Oleg Deripaska the Russian aluminium magnate who owns Rusal came to Conakry to meet Konaté whose adviser Mamadou Condé a party stalwart of Alpha Condé insisted on the meeting...

Ismaël Diakité a senior official at Rio Tinto and a former supporter of opposionist Alpha Condé is known to have voted for Sidya Touré but he could switch his support back in the second round...