Last November, Guinea's president Mamadi Doumbouya, who overthrew Alpha Condé in September 2021, handed the reins of Guinea's most important economic sector to Moussa Magassouba by appointing him minister of mines and geology. However, he gave Magassouba only limited power to manage this portfolio.
It is Doumbouya who has taken over the running of the agency that manages the state's shares in the country's mines, Soguipami, despite the supervision

