Your account has been succesfully created.

EN FR

Scroll through edition

Guinea

President's son promotes Guinea-Brazil ties

Momentum is picking up in favor of tighter ties between Guinea and Brazil where the latter's leading bank, BTG Pactual [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.09.2012

Simandou iron ore: Conakry switches adviser

According to our sources in Conakry, Guinea’s government is on the point of choosing a new law firm, probably SNR [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.09.2012

Pirates cut off the gas

The West African Gas Pipeline that carries gas from the Niger Delta to Ghana, Togo and Benin stopped functioning completely [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.09.2012

Looking for outlets for dams

The European Investment Bank is weighing the prospects of selling electricity from future hydro-power dams in Guinea to other countries in the sub-region.

Subscribers only Energy 11.09.2012

Spotlight
Simandou: Why the IFC frowns on AIOG

With funding for infrastructure to ship iron ore out from the Simandou South project operated by Simfer stirring more interest than ever (AMI 278), tension has arisen between the Simfer stakeholders (Rio Tinto, Chinalco, IFC) and the African Iron Ore [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.09.2012

Palladino scandal: Conde tightens the rules

In response to the scandal concerning the Palladino equity fund (AMI 277), president Alpha Conde has seized the occasion of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.09.2012

Papa Koly Kourouma

It was Guinea’s junior minister in charge of energy and the environment, Papa Koly Kourouma, who managed on July 20 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.09.2012

Rift between Conakry and Taylor DeJongh

According to our contacts on the steering committee of players [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.09.2012

Simandou: Banco BTG Pactual offers assistance

The financial package to develop the Simandou South iron ore [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.09.2012

Lonagui faces audit in Conakry

The Guinean auditing concern AK founded by Amara Kaba has [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.07.2012

First Bank in fresh move to assist Guinea

The Guinean affiliate of the Nigerian banking group First Bank [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.07.2012

Timis and CNPC as bedfellows

African Petroleum’s quick and bountiful harvest of acreage in West Africa means it will have to look for key partners with deep pockets. State-run Chinese companies fit the bill.

Free access Energy 24.07.2012

Scramble to finance Transguineen rail line

A competition is building up between Rio Tinto’s management, the Sino-Guinean Cooperation Committee and African Iron Ore Group (AIOG) to [...]

Free access Mining 17.07.2012

Conde weighs political pros and cons

With one eye on election dates, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde is determined to play down the Conakry massacre, forestalling justice for the victims.

Subscribers only Politics 11.07.2012

Spotlight
Angolan cash to pay back Palladino?

The new Societe Guineenne de Patrimoine dans le Secteur Minier (Soguipami) headed by a former adviser to president Ahmed Kante has got off to bad start. Testifying on June 28 before the Conseil National de Transition (CNT) on the conditions [.

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2012

Rosneft

The state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft could very shortly buy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2012

IFC in trade finance deal

For the first time, the International Finance Corp (IFC), the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2012

Training for mining contract examiners

GUINEA Members of a technical committee that reviews mining and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.06.2012

The minister and the oligarch

Guinea's mines and geology minister, Mohamed Lamine Fofana, dispatched a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.06.2012

Yomboyeli to start exporting iron ore soon

Guinea's prime minister, Mohamed Said Fofana, and Jack Cheun Fang, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.06.2012

Bauxite: Conde soothes tempers at CBG

Tempers have cooled a little in recent days at Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG) where a strike prevented ore [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

Algy Cluff’s crucial swansong deal

The London explorer Cluff Gold finds itself at a crucial crossroads just as its renowned founder, Algy Cluff, has retired [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

Green light for Chinese at Yomboyeli

In a letter numbered 0823 and dated May 21 to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.06.2012

Conde, Hollande's embarrassing friend

His acquaintance with fellow Socialist President Alpha Conde could prove [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.05.2012

SGH

The Canadian company Simba Energy founded by Hassan Hassan has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.05.2012

Create a notification

Guinea

Picto Synthese

Don't miss a single headline. Sign up to receive weekly summaries of our coverage of Guinea.

Sign up for real-time alerts and be notified of new editions!

Once registered, you will be notified by a short message on your computer or mobile phone as soon as a new edition of our publication or an alert is published. Stay informed anytime, anywhere!