General Sékouba Konaté

Sékouba Konaté...

There is vast potential in Guinea's iron ore and bauxite including Rio Tinto's Simandou concession but high export rates will not resume unless interim President Sékouba Konaté can manage a transition to civilian rule later this year...

Sékouba Konaté...

General Sékouba Konaté had tried to escape the corridors of power during the 2008 coup but destiny caught up with him a year later following the December 2009 shooting of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara...

Officially Sékouba Konaté is Third Vice-President of the Conseil National pour la Démocratie et le Développement (CNDD); in reality he is the junta's number two so he naturally takes over from Dadis...

As political candidates and generals were locked in negotations about the second round of the presidential elections due by the end of October interim President General Sékouba Konaté has given his blessing to yet another Chinese multibillion-dollar mines-for-infrastructure deal...

The CIF which first secured extensive mining and oil rights in Guinea under the junta of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara enjoys good relations with the interim government of General Sékouba Konaté...

A further complication is the national election due on 27 June after which General Sékouba Konaté’s junta has promised to hand over power to a civilian successor...

Yansané needs the backing of either the interim President Brigadier General Sékouba Konaté or Prime Minister Doré to investigate the CIF deal...

As Director of China Sonangol International Vicente sang the praises of Zimbabwe’s investment climate and on 7 September Dos Santos played host to Guinean Defence Minister General Sékouba Konaté while the China International Fund and China Sonangol deals were being finalised...

The military alternative is Defence Minister General Sékouba Konaté who has control of all aircraft and heavy weapons...