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Mining 24/05/2022

Lithium fever grips the south

The mining companies Guinean Lithium Ressources and African Lithium Mining Ressources, registered in Guinea in April, have applied for exploration permits in the south of Guinea [...]

Diplomacy 18/05/2022

French foreign office Africa director met Mamadi Doumbouya in discreet tête à tête

The head of the Guinean transition, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, met very inconspicuously on 12 May with Christophe Bigot, Director of Africa and the Indian Ocean at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [...]

Business 12/05/2022

After Abidjan, Castel loses Coca-Cola distribution rights in Ouagadougou

The Atlanta-based soft drinks giant has already severed its ties with Castel in Ivory Coast and a number of other African countries, and is now about to do the same in Burkina Faso. [...]

Diplomacy 10/05/2022

EU ministers to discuss Africa

EU foreign affairs ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels on 16 May. While the situation in Ukraine is set to dominate the talks, the agenda is also likely to include Africa, and specifically the Sahel region. [...]

Diplomacy Defence 10/05/2022

Paris uses Beninese airports for Barkhane withdrawal

The first discreet nightly rotations took place from 1 to 7 May at Kandi airport, in northern Benin, which is currently used as a platform for French jumbo jets coming from Mali and heading for Niger, the final destination of the French equipment. [...]

Diplomacy Defence 09/05/2022

Barkhane withdrawal puts MINSUMA medical services on the spot

The withdrawal of French Barkhane troops from Mali and the dismantling of its military hospital in Gao means that MINUSMA will have to reorganise medical logistics for its peacekeepers. [...]

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Politics 09/05/2022

Detained ex-PM Fofana boosts legal team with French lawyers

Guinean ex-prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, under investigation for embezzlement and human rights violations, has boosted his legal team with Paris lawyers Eric Moutet and Pierre-Henri Bovis. [...]

The former Prime Minister of Alpha Condé, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana. © @IbrahimaKFofana

Mining 05/05/2022

Battery metals attract new exploration hopefuls

The increasing demand for minerals used in the manufacture of electric batteries, namely lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese, is leading to greater interest in Guinea's natural resources. [...]

Business 05/05/2022

Coca-Cola restructures Ivoirian bottling partnership Free

The Atlanta-based soft drinks company has been dissolving several of its African partnerships and is currently preparing to part ways with its bottler in Ivory Coast. [...]

Diplomacy 03/05/2022

UK tries to maintain influence in Conakry despite heavy cut in its aid budget

In less than a year, the level of British government funding in Guinea has been lowered by three quarters as a result of Boris Johnson's government's decision to reduce development aid. The UK is still trying to defend its interests in the country, but is finding it difficult. [...]

British ambassador in Guinea, David McIlroy, visiting Beindou, in the center of the country. © Twitter/@david_mcilroy

Mining 28/04/2022

Conflict over Mansounia gold project extends to US

After years of fighting to recover a gold permit in Guinea, the US firm Blox is now facing a new legal battle over the same mining dispute in its home country. The new case is linked to Guinean regulations on research permits. [...]

Diplomacy 27/04/2022

How EU plans to allocate $600m military support package within the AU

On 21 April, the European Union adopted an assistance measure to provide the African Union with €600m in aid over three years. A €170m package has already been set aside for 2022. The package should be put towards the fight against Boko Haram and the AU mission in Somalia but leaves out the G5 Sahel. [...]

Diplomacy 22/04/2022

New EU ambassador for Conaky

Sa nomination intervient alors que le gouvernement de transition guinéen, dirigé par le colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, cherche à mobiliser le soutien des bailleurs internationaux. [...]

Mining 21/04/2022

Russia's Nordgold talks up its future despite sanctions and closure of Taparko gold mine

The gold producer Nordgold, which has just announced the closure of one of its mines in Burkina Faso, claims to have found an alternative solution for refining its African output, which was an early victim of the sanctions targeting Russia and Nordgold's owner, oligarch Alexey Mordashov. [...]

Diplomacy 20/04/2022

How Dakar became West Africa's 'strategic thinking' capital Free

Over the last decade, Dakar has established itself as the centre of 'strategic thinking' in West Africa. The city boasts a think tank ecosystem where ministers, former generals, researchers and donors mingle. [...]

Diplomacy Defence 19/04/2022

Dakar, the post-Barkhane experiment

In parallel with the withdrawal from Mali, the French army will strengthen the role the Eléments Français au Sénégal's 400 soldiers, whose current boss, General Michel Delpit, will leave his post in the middle of this year. [...]

Dakar is home to 350 French soldiers from the EFS. © Facebook/Eléments français au Sénégal

Mining 18/04/2022

AGB2A's battle to produce bauxite

Chinese-Guinean consortium AGB2A has to overcome many obstacles to extract and produce bauxite in Boffa prefecture. A recent conflict between stakeholders is not helping matters. [...]

Diplomacy Defence 15/04/2022

Between Mali pullout and Ukraine, French military cooperation budget reaches delicate equilibrium

Despite the reallocation of European security cooperation funds to Ukraine, Paris has made a point of reassuring its West African partners by releasing other funds their way. [...]

Business 15/04/2022

From Bamako to Bangui, Walid Arem takes over Libya's problem hotels

Walid Arem has taken over the famed Ledger Plaza hotel in Bangui, which is owned by the Libyan state through its Laico fund and is at the centre of a bitter power struggle. Arem was already running two other Laico hotels in Bamako, as well as a seaside resort in Tunisia. [...]

Tunisian businessman Walid Arem. © Walid Arem/Instagram

Politics 14/04/2022

Ex-PM Ibrahima Fofana tools up to defend embezzlement charges

After the head of the ousted Alpha Conde's government, along with three other former ministers, was detained earlier this month to face charges of diverting state funds, his supporters got busy preparing his defence, putting together a crack legal team and trying to rally a bevvy of West African heads of state to his cause. [...]

Former Guinean Prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana. © Ibrahima Kassory Fofana/Facebook

Mining 14/04/2022

Subcontracting exchange strives to expand

For the past three years, the platform has been putting mining operators and service companies in touch with each other. It now faces an uphill battle to achieve its ambitions for growth and diversification. [...]

Business Banks 14/04/2022

Burkinabe business leaders in three-way fight for Orabank

Orabank's re-entry into the market has resulted in three Burkina Faso business leaders battling it out to buy the Togo-based regional banking group. [...]

Running story Politics

Transition in Guinea: what's next after the coup?

The coup that ousted Alpha Condé on 5 September 2021 in Guinea has ushered in a period of instability, despite the putschists' reassuring words from the start. There is much at stake over the coming months as leaders jostle for power and political alliances take shape, and pressing questions over the mining industry and international partnerships come to the fore. [...]

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo (left) and his Ivorian counterpart Alassane Ouattara (right) meet the putschists during an ECOWAS mission to Guinea on 17 September 2021. © @PresidenceCI/Twitter

Business Politics 13/04/2022

Competition hots up for Northwestern African constituency between Pro-Macron candidates

The former Maghreb representative of Emmanuel Macron's LREM party, Mehdi Reddad, is gearing up to run for the presidential majority's nomination for the seat of MP for the French nationals in the Maghreb and West Africa. [...]

Mehdi Reddad (left) and M'Jid El Guerrab (right). © Mehdi Reddad/M'Jid el-Guerrab/Twitter

Mining 08/04/2022

Conakry keen for greener mining projects

The interim prime minister and his staff want to improve the extractive sector's respect for the environment through stricter enforcement of relevant contractual obligations. [...]