September
Guinea’s Junta urges miners to help break ‘resource curse’
Guinea’s military ruler urged miners to support efforts to turn the nation’s bauxite into alumina, and then into aluminium.
- Ougna Camara and Katarina Hoije
- Opinion
- Mining
Guinea can’t shake the resource curse
Failure to make the most of the west African nation’s vast mineral wealth risks being both cause and consequence of the latest political turmoil.
- Clara Ferreira Marques and David Fickling
Guinea’s new junta leaders seek to tighten grip on power
The West African nation is back under military rule for the first time in over a decade, and already the National Assembly and constitution have been dissolved.
- Boubacar Diallo and Krista Larson
Guinea military unit seizes power, suspends constitution
The West African nation vies with Australia as China’s largest supplier of bauxite, used to make alumina and eventually aluminium.
- Ougna Camara and Baudelaire Mieu
