Mamadi Doumbouya

Guinea
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.

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Guinea
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.

Guinea
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.

Guinea
Junta making slow work of installing post-Condé ambassadorial line-up

Although most of Guinea's ambassadors were recalled in early February, none of them has so far returned to Conakry. Interim president Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya is nevertheless pursuing his efforts little by little to change his country's diplomatic line-up abroad.

Guinea
Put on notice by Doumbouya, Rio Tinto negotiates next move in Simandou iron

The Conakry authorities' order to the Simandou operators to suspend all activity on the ground until the details of the project's progress have been clarified comes as Rio Tinto is in the process of recruiting and conducting studies on the Guinean iron ore project.

Guinea
Guinean fuel tender in limbo

The contract to supply petroleum products to Conakry has still not been officially awarded. Though Sahara Group was favoured by the Société Nationale des Pétroles (SONAP) in early March, Mocoh and Addax Energy have not given up and are questioning the unusual way in which the various candidates have been evaluated.

Guinea, Liberia
Conakry and Monrovia set to resume talks on Nimba railway link

After having been suspended since the coup against Alpha Condé in September, talks between the two governments on the transportation of Guinean iron ore through Liberia for export are about to resume.

Guinea
Sahara Group ousts Addax Energy for fuel supply contract

SONAP, the state-owned company that oversees Guinea's hydrocarbon sector, has selected Nigeria's Sahara Group to import petroleum products into the country. President Mamadi Doumbouya now needs to validate the choice.

Guinea
Robert Friedland's SMFG to upgrade iron ore investors' airport

The Société des mines de fer de Guinée (SFMG), which is developing the Nimba iron ore project in the south-east of the country, is planning to renovate the runways of the closest aerodrome, N'Zérékoré, which is crucial to the success of mining operations in the area.

Guinea
Doumbouya seeks slice of gold exports to replenish its coffers

Equipped with a brand new digital platform for processing foreign trade operations, the Guinean state intends to finally implement a rule that has been in place for several years requiring revenue from exports, especially gold, to be repatriated.