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guineans await final verdict
The military has declared a state of emergency and banned political protests amid anxiety over who should lead the world’s biggest exporter of bauxite. There is a risk of the political competition...
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alpha conde confirmed winner of Guinea’s presidential poll
Update: The Daily Nation reports: Guinea’s losing presidential poll candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo (left) on Friday accepted results of the election, saying he had no choice but to comply with the...
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Guinea’s Alpha Conde attacked
President Alpha Conde, Guinea’s first elected president since independence, appears to have survived a coup attempt in the early hours of Tuesday. Mr. Conde’s residence was hit by rocket fire in what...
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Are some Guinean government officials idiots, criminals or both?
This was an extraordinary windfall: B.S.G.R. had paid nothing up front, as is customary with exploration licenses, and at that point had invested only a hundred and sixty million dollars. In less than...
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Resource Dependence in Africa (with some thoughts on Mozambique)
Source: The World Bank. Click on image to enlarge This map shows resource rents as a share of GDP for the period 2009-2013. Note that the colouring on the map is about to change, with the Indian...
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Quick random hits
1. As usual, great career advice for those in the academy from Chris Blattman. 2. Boring Development asks some interesting questions re RCTs, and questions the internal validity assumption many of...
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On the IMF and Ebola
Did IMF policies lead to the inability of the health systems in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone to contain the ongoing Ebola outbreak? There has been a lot of back and forth on this question in the...
View ArticleOld Habits Die Hard: Rio Tinto allegedly bribed government officials in Guinea
Regular readers may recall that in Simandou Guinea has one of the richest iron ore deposits in the world; and that it is a development project that I have been following for a while. You may also...
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