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More ore, more problems

A US$3.3 million loan offered by the China International Fund has drawn renewed criticism of the company’s activities in Guinea. On 1 March, Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé, a member of Mouvement Social de Guinée, appeared on Radiodiffusion-Télévision Guinéenne. Baldé excoriated the $7 billion in contracts that CIF and partner China Sonangol controversially signed in October 2009 with the military junta then led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara....

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