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Guinea

Sophie Talbot, a new plaintiff in the Vincent Bollore affair

Have acted as the administrator of Necotrans until the liquidation [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 30.01.2019

Elecnor lays down roots in Conakry

With an antenna already based in neighbouring Liberia (AEI 809), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.01.2019

Spotlight
Rio Tinto, Beijing, Steinmetz, Friedland: Conakry in talks with all and sundry to reboot iron ore sector

Highly costly, remote and often the object of an international dispute or arbitration, iron ore projects in Guinea have been struggling in recent years. The Conakry authorities are working hard to turn the situation around, especially to develop Simandou and [...]

Subscribers only 22.01.2019

GAC bauxite back on track at last

Emirates Global Aluminium subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corp has started tests [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.01.2019

Funds from Beijing for G5 Sahel

The Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi took advantage of his first visit to Burkina Faso on 4 January to announce [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.01.2019

Doha takes (military) lead over Riyadh

Until now rather reluctant to get involved in the military sphere in Africa, Qatar nevertheless donated twenty-four armoured vehicles to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.01.2019

Guess what of January 16, 2019

Name-calling | Safety net | Unavoidably detained | Nightclub | Persona non grata

Free access Guess what ? 16.01.2019

Brahms refinery ropes in Nigerian billionaire Indimi's son

A Guinean entrepreneur has secured backing from a gathering of African oil sector experts for a refinery project in his homeland.

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2019

Andritz makes a clean sweep of Grandes chutes dam

The choice of Austrian firm Andritz Hydro to renovate the 27.6 MW Grandes chutes and 5 MW Baneah hydropower plants [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2019

Banker Francois Polge de Combret targeted by legal action in Paris over Simandou mine

French investment banker Francois Polge de Combret, who was economic adviser to President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and is a personal [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2019

CBG train troubles take their toll on RusAl's bauxite

The Russian group's Guinean production stood at half-mast for several weeks after wagons transporting CBG bauxite output derailed in mid-December.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 08.01.2019

Doha asserts itself

With Saudi Arabia becoming mired in the war Yemen, on [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2019

Didier Bazzo helps SMB appease concerns about bauxite

French consultant Didier Bazzo, founder of consultancy firm Societe d'expertises environnementales et sociales, was in the Boke region from December [...]

Free access Mining 18.12.2018

Stephane Rigny and partners move forward on bauxite and diamonds

After taking a foothold in Guinea's bauxite industry last year [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.12.2018

Kouyate lays into Beijing

Guinea's ex-prime minister Lansana Kouyate took advantage of a round table held on 6 December at the headquarters of the [...]

Free access Diplomacy 12.12.2018

Konate persona non grata in Conakry

General Sekouba Konate is still champing at the bit in [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 12.12.2018

Scuffle over diamonds of first lady's cousin

Since mid-November, one of the diamond mines operated in the Banankoro zone by Guiter Mining, a company headed by Ansoumane [...]