In Focus | Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

The Guinean junta is keeping up pressure on the gold group owned by Russian oligarch Alexey Mordashov to get payment of a $200m debt. But the billionaire still has strong connections within the local mining sector, enabling Nordgold to continue to export gold to Dubai in breach of Western sanctions. [...]
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Illustrated by Julien Pacaud.
Illustrated by Julien Pacaud. © Pictures : G. Cacace/M-A Kurtar/AFP ; S. Karpukhin/Reuters
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