Not so long ago, Rusal officials were sitting pretty in Guinea. Until his 2021 ouster, Alpha Condé, who came to power in 2010, never denied an audience to the Russian mining giant's Conakry-based executives or those visiting from Moscow, and his ministers rolled out the red carpet for them. But 10 months after the former leading light of the Socialist International was toppled in a military coup, the mood in Conakry has changed dramatically: those in power there now no longer treat the aluminium


