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Guinea
Population:	9.4mn.
GNI:	3.7bn.
Debt:	3.4bn.
Overview:	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 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...

Vol 3 No 6
April 2010

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. Bal...

Vol 3 No 5
March 2010

New pressure on China deals

The new government is divided on demands for a review of the $7bn China International Fund contracts

Vol 3 No 1
November 2009

The junta rewards new friends

Conakry begins stripping foreign companies of mining and oil assets for its Chinese partners as those partners turn towards Zimbabwe

Vol 2 No 12
October 2009

Blood and money in the streets

China's business ties to the loathed Camara junta could quickly backfire

Vol 2 No 12
October 2009

The faces behind the funds

The business people, politicians and state officials behind the China International Fund (CIF) and China Sonangol International (CSI) entered the public eye in 2008 with the purchase of the publicly traded office supply company Artfield Group (now Chin...

Vol 2 No 12
October 2009

How the Sino-Angolan alliance works

The China International Fund (CIF) was born in the aftermath of Angola's civil war as the Luanda government embarked on Africa's costliest post-war reconstruction, fuelled by oil, gas and mineral resources. Founded in 2003 by Dayuan International Deve...

Vol 2 No 7
May 2009

Contract confusion

The junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's order that all mining licences are subject to immediate revocation if the government does not approve of their development plans has added more confusion to Guinea's troubled mining sector. At the same ti...

Vol 2 No 4
February 2009

The new Conakry order

Despite a show of insouciance after December's putsch led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in Conakry, China's diplomats and business leaders are closely watching the new regime's policies, particularly its intentions to review all mining contracts. China ...

Vol 1 No 12
October 2008

Dam payment

President Conté's ministers are the latest African team to negotiate a massive minerals-for-infrastructure countertrade deal

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