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Guinea
Population: 9.4mn.
GNI: 3.7bn.
Debt: 3.4bn.
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China Sonangol and the China International Fund’s foothold in the oil and mining sectors awarded by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara before he suffered an assassination attempt are now in doubt.

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  • Vol 4 No 12
  •  October 2011

Alpha Condé

President of the Republic of Guinea

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Betting on Boffa

The government is negotiating the biggest-ever mining contract with a state-owned Chinese company, while another deal gets downsized

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Pulling away CIF’s welcome mat

Guinean President Alpha Condé has removed the most attractive clauses of China International Fund’s joint venture agreement with the former military junta of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. The CIF’s framework deal with the Guinean government allowed for CIF...

  • Vol 4 No 8
  •  June 2011

Doors open, doors close

In early June, Guinea’s President Alpha Condé set the tone for more tense negotiations with mining investors when he declared that Chinese-style mines-for-infrastructure deals are unacceptable. The government has also extracted a US$700 million payment fr...

  • Vol 4 No 4
  •  February 2011

Minding the mines

President Condé called off mining contract reviews but will move to take a one-third share of all mining projects

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

More contracts as the vote looms

Despite the impending transition to civil rule, the military regime has signed a mega-contract with the China Hyway Group for housing and roads

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal

In return for huge investments in housing and roads, the China Hyway Group has asked for several mining permits that would give it access to at least five bauxite deposits: those located at Koumbia in the north, those at Kouroussa in the central region a...

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 2010

And the winner is...the CIF

The shadowy China International Fund believes that its political contacts will protect its deals after the election

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 2010

CIF sitting pretty in Guinea

As one of the anchors in the proposed trans-Guinea railway, the China International Fund may consider its position in Guinea unassailable. However, the Bellzone/CIF deal is already persuading other companies that investing in Guinea's mines is a good p...

  • Vol 3 No 8
  •  June 2010

Building an improbable railway

There are two big problems with the new deal between the China International Fund and the small Australian mining company Bellzone announced in Conakry on 24 May to mine iron ore in the expansive Kalia concessions. Firstly, there is little sign for now th...

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