President Alpha Condé

During the US-Africa summit in Washington this week Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell met Guinean President Alpha Condé and senior officials from Liberia and Sierra Leone whose Presidents Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Ernest Bai Koroma had stayed at home to tackle the growing emergency...

A discussion between Guinean President Alpha Condé who favoured UN involvement in CAR and Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso who opposed it was finally resolved when the new CAR Interim President Catherine Samba- Panza called for an early deployment of UN forces...

President Alpha Condé's 21 January reshuffle removed politicians left over from the days of General Lansana Conté although Naby Youssouf Kiridi Bangoura remains Presidency Secretary General...

While President Alpha Condé will seek re-election to try to finish what he has started the opposition led by Cellou Dalein Diallo will try to stop him...

CPI Vice-President Yu Dehui was in Conakry in mid-August to meet President Alpha Condé and to discuss the remaining details of the contract...

That means disappointment for the opposition and deep relief for President Alpha Condé...

It has been under heavy police protection ever since and President Alpha Condé has promised a full investigation...

President Alpha Condé's advisor and friend the financier and philanthropist George Soros hosted a meeting on 17 June to celebrate agreement that the development of the Simandou iron ore deposit led by Rio Tinto was a good thing...

President Alpha Condé has escalated his government's row with Geneva-based Beny Steinmetz Group Resources over the legitimacy of its stake in the Simandou iron ore mine...

BSGR dismissed Condé's claims as 'completely untrue' and 'a desperate attempt to throw dust in the eyes of international observers who have been increasingly critical of Alpha Condé's lack of enthusiasm to hold legislative elections'...

At the heart of the fight for Simandou are President Alpha Condé’s government and three international mining houses: Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto which has a controlling stake in Simandou Blocks 3 and 4 and Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) which together with Brazil’s Vale control Simandou Blocks 1 and 2...

BSGR’s representatives told Africa Confidential they regard the Alpha Condé government as illegitimate and claims of corruption against them are ‘baseless...