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Snubbed in the West, Alpha Condé turns to Ankara and Moscow

The scrupulously stage-managed ‘jubilant crowds' who welcomed Alpha Condé at Conakry airport on 31 October served not only as a riposte to the opposition demonstrations that paralysed the country in mid-October but also to underscore a major shift in foreign [...] (608 words)

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GUINEA
Albayrak
Alcoa
Alexander Bregadze
Alpha Condé
Cellou Dalein Diallo
Emmanuel Macron
Fetullah Gülen
Mike Pompeo
Nicolas Sarkozy
Port autonome de Conakry
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Rémi Maréchaux
Rusal
Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum
Vladimir Putin

Alpha Condé's team to woo Russian infrastructure companies in Saint Petersburg

Guinean president Alpha Condé flew a delegation to Saint Petersburg to attend the 24th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) from 2-5 June. [...]

GUINEA 15/10/2020

The dream team behind Cellou Diallo's media campaign

In the home stretch of his campaign, Guinean opposition leader Cellou Diallo is relying on a very solid team, including his private secretary Nadia Nahman and his communications advisor Souleymane Bah. [...]

The opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo. © Reuters

TURKEY WEST AFRICA 13/10/2020

Erdogan aims to form a pro-Turkish bloc along the West African coast

The Turkish government is working all out to win favour with Guinea Buissau and Senegal. It aims to create a pro-Turkish African bloc stretching from Saint Louis in the north to the Nimba mountains in the south. [...]

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Guinea-Bissauan president Umaro Sissoco Embalo. © www.tccb.gov.tr

SIERRA LEONE GUINEA 18/09/2020

Sierra Leonean army reinforces its borders in run-up to Guinean election Free

To pre-empt a potentially explosive situation in Guinea following the presidential election on 18 October, the Sierra Leonean military is already stepping up its capacities along the borders. [...]

FRANCE AFRICA 17/07/2020

Quai d'Orsay reshuffles its African deck

Several key French diplomatic posts in Africa are going to change hands, including in Conakry, Bangui and Addis Ababa. There are changes afoot too in the Africa Department. The latest developments. [...]

French Ministry of Europe and foreign affairs, Palais du Quai d'Orsay, Paris. © Guilhem Vellut/CC BY 2.0

RUSSIA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 10/07/2020

Roscongress Foundation spearheads Kremlin's sub-Saharan business drive

Run by figures close to the seat of power of Moscow, Roscongress Foundation is using the holding of international events to further Russia's drive to extend its links in Africa beyond its longstanding partners in the north of the continent. [...]

First Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in October 2019, organised by the Roscongress Foundation. © Xinhua News Agency/MAXPPP

UGANDA TURKEY 14/02/2020

Turkey's AKP marshals its pawns in Kampala

As organisations and businesses set up shop with the support of Istanbul, Fethullah Gülen's networks remain firmly in the Turkish government's firing line… [...]

GUINEA 22/01/2020

Abiy Ahmed as AU mediator fails to dissuade Alpha Condé from third term Free

Concerned at the Guinean president's determination to seek a third term, the African Union with the tacit support of Washington has deployed the Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali in Conakry. [...]

Ahmet Calik's mining projects. © Indigo Publications

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GUINEA Document 14/01/2020

Turkish tycoon and Erdogan pal, Ahmet Calik embarks on mining adventure

Riding on the honeymoon phase of Ankara and Conakry's political and economic relations (WAN 811), Turkish billionaire Ahmet Calik, who is close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has secured a strategic mining alliance with the Guinean government. [...]

WEST AFRICA 08/01/2020

President's club disrupted by newly elected Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Bissau

From Ouagadougou to Conakry and Abidjan, the election of Umaro Sissoco Embalo as president in Guinea Bissau has gone down badly. The well-connected consultant and former prime minister has a network throughout the region. [...]

TURKEY AFRICA 18/12/2019

Erdogan's Africa team

Turkey's remarkably swift penetration of the continent's markets has been overseen directly by President Erdogan, aided by key advisors. [...]

GUINEA 10/12/2019

Calls for pollution sanctions on RusAl's processing plant

Following its on-site inspection the Friguia alumina plant in the [...]

GUINEA 26/11/2019

Alpha Condé picks Putin over Friedland's mines

When invited to visit the Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi mining projects developed by Ivanhoe Mines in the DRC and its Platreef [...]

GUINEA 20/11/2019

Cellou Dalein Diallo talks third terms with Mahamadou Issoufou

On the fringes of the Paris Peace Forum held from [...]

GUINEA 28/08/2019

Alpha Conde casts net wide in search of support for third term

Before going through a constitutional reform that would allow him to seek a third term, the Guinea president is trying to burnish his international image. [...]

GUINEA 04/06/2019

Rusal brings loose-tongued ambassador Alexander Bregadze back to Conakry

The man announced on May 24 by Russian mining group [...]

GUINEA TURKEY 14/11/2018

Ankara indulges Conakry

On 3 November, Alpha Conde dispatched his new Gulfstream G450 [...]

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GUINEA 27/09/2017

How Conde is using the AU to extend his networks

Though it may raise Alpha Conde's international profile, the chief interest of holding the presidency of the African Union (AU) for the Guinean president is that he can strengthen relations with China and the United States, and indeed develop new [. [...]