Lansana Conté

They were particularly upset about the appointment of Abdul Karim Dioubaté as Interior Minister because he was an enemy of Condé's during the presidency of Lansana Conté from 1984 to 2008 (AC Vol 55 No 3 Condé's house clearance)...

The legality or otherwise of the government's decision to strip Steinmetz of his mining rights in Simandou will continue to be contested in court as will the legality of the award which the former military-backed Lansana Conté regime made to Steinmetz...

Condé appointed Ibrahima Kassory Fofana a former aide to the late President Lansana Conté as his campaign director...

Cilins had urged Mamadie Conté née Touré the late President Lansana Conté's fourth wife to destroy documents that appeared to connect BSGR to bribes to Conté...

He started bribing Guinean officials but 'soon learned' that only the late President Lansana Conté could make the necessary decisions...

On 9 April the government published transcripts of telephone conversations between Mamadie Conté ex-wife of the late President Lansana Conté and Frédéric Cilins a lobbyist for BSGR...

The licences for Blocks 1 and 2 now in dispute were stripped from Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto and transferred to BSGR shortly before the death of Guinea's military leader President Lansana Conté in December 2008...

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...

One of those thought lucky to have been elected is Ibrahima Kassory Fofana a Finance Minister under the late President Lansana Conté whom local media have linked to the controversial transfer of the iron-ore concession to BSGR...

Guinean officials are investigating how BSGR secured its stake in Simandou under the late President General Lansana Conté and have arrested some of the company's staff in Conakry...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Cilins in April after Mamadie Conté née Touré the fourth and last wife of Lansana Conté secretly recorded her conversations with him in her role as a 'cooperating witness' for the US government (AC Vol 54 No 9 The fight for Mount Simandou)...