RUSSIA/GUINEA : Alpha Condé's team to woo Russian infrastructure companies in Saint Petersburg
June 3, 2021
Guinean president Alpha Condé flew a delegation to Saint Petersburg to attend the 24th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) from 2-5 June. Source link
EQUATORIAL GUINEA : Oil minister Obiang offers Trident glimmer of hope for Zafiro
March 4, 2021
The meeting was never made public. But according to our sources, two of oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima’s closest aides met last October in Dubai with Trident Energy to discuss the Zafiro field, currently in the hands of ExxonMobil.In a Source link
EQUATORIAL GUINEA : Teodorin and his military cooperation chief attend Aero India 2021
February 7, 2021
An Equatorial Guinean Ministry of Defence delegation was given a grand ceremonial welcome by the organisers of the Aero India 2021 aerospace and defence exhibition, which opened in Bangalore on 3 February. Source link
GUINEA BISSAU/WEST AFRICA : Strauss-Kahn pitch to Embaló
January 31, 2021
In Bissau on 15 January to meet with President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has offered to help Guinea Bissau raise Chinese funding for infrastructure projects. Source link
GUINEA/SIERRA LEONE : With China all over Guinean bauxite and iron ore, investors target Sierra Leone
January 17, 2021
Indian group Geetarani Mohanty (GRM) is eagerly awaiting the Freetown government’s reply to its request for a bauxite and iron ore exploration permit for a site in Koinadugu District, northern Sierra Leone, filed in late 2020.DiversifyingThis permit would allow GRM Source link
GUINEA : Guinean opposition seeks help from French lawyers Klugman and Terel after wave of arrests
January 13, 2021
Patrick Klugman and Ivan Terel are to travel to Guinea this week to help an association of lawyers created by Cellou Dalein Diallo’s UFDG party. Source link
GUINEA : Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée revives refinery project
December 20, 2020
Alumina production could begin in early 2025, according to Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG), a joint venture between Australia’s Rio Tinto, the US firms Alcoa and Dadco, and the Conakry government. CBG plans by that date to have completed Source link