Alpha Condé

Guinea's recently re-elected President Alpha Condé has adopted a conciliatory tone towards mining company Rio Tinto over its sluggish development of the Simandou iron-ore mine despite the British-Australian mining giant's non-committal comments to its shareholders and its writing down of the mine's value by over US$1 billion (AC Vol 57 No 4 Condé strikes out on his own)...

President Alpha Condé is enjoying the freedom of manoeuvre that his second and final term of office has given him...

Despite the opposition parties' simmering anger and protestors clashing with police this week in Conakry President Alpha Condé looks set to hold on to his first round victory in the 11 October election...

' That was the message from those who engineered President Alpha Condé's first round victory in the 11 October presidential election with 57...

The flamboyant Malick Sankhon Director of the National Social Security Fund led an outfit called CRAC the committee for the re-election of Alpha Condé...

President Alpha Condé faces a growing barrage of attacks as presidential polling day looms on 11 October...

The London Stock Exchange-listed Sable Mining founded by Andrew Groves a Zimbabwean and former England cricketer Phil Edmonds is fighting back with the support of Guinean President Alpha Condé (AC Vol 48 No 11 Dollars and mines)...

Questions remain about the nature of Sable Mining's relationship with the government of President Alpha Condé...

In his haste to make new mining deals with Chinese bauxite companies President Alpha Condé has stepped on some toes including those of the British government...

That is the feeling in Conakry as President Alpha Condé and his advisors watch the prospects of economic development financed by minerals recede into the distance...

President Alpha Condé who seems to have demonstrated a surer handling of the crisis than his counterparts in Liberia and Sierra Leone implored retired doctors to return to help the treatment effort...