News Guinea: Guinea: World Bank Approves Electricity Project to Provide 600,000 People with New or Improved Electricity Services
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today $50 million International Development Association (IDA) financing for the Guinea Electricity Access Scale Up Project to help increase access to electricity in selected areas of the country.
News Guinea: MTN exits Guinea markets, sells to Telecel
South African operator MTN has accepted an offer to sell its Guinea operations to Telecel. The operator wants to withdraw from smaller markets to invest in digital platforms and fintech offerings. The ...
News Guinea: Guinea bans raw gold exports to force domestic refining
Guinea has banned the export of raw gold effective immediately, requiring all industrial and artisanal miners to process the precious metal domestically before shipping. According to a Bloomberg report, Guinean President Mamadi Doumbouya announced the policy during a meeting with mining operators, gold purchasing offices and artisanal producers. “G...
News Guinea: Guinean Investment Group Agir Completes Acquisition of Islamic Bank of Guinea
Mining executive Louis Camara has acquired 100% of the Islamic Bank of Guinea, expanding his investments into banking The acquisition follows the Islamic Development Bank group’s sale of its stake ...
News Guinea: Guinea Advances Industrialization Through Expanded UNIDO Cooperation
Guinea is expanding technical training to support its industrialization plans A new UNIDO partnership will help develop skills needed for industrial jobs The strategy aims to boost manufacturing and ...
News Guinea: Emirates to Resume Flights to Conakry
The FINANCIAL — Emirates has announced that it will resume flights to Conakry, the capital of Guinea, from 30th October 2016. The flight to Conakry will be linked to Emirates’ four times weekly ...
News Guinea: Youth Entrepreneurship and Agriculture in Guinea: “Proving them wrong”
Ousmane Diallo is a graduate who owns farmland in one of the most remote places in Guinea. Ousmane’s production of rice has increased, with seeds and training from the West Africa Agricultural ...
News Guinea: Asara Resources Appoints Aurélien Douyère as CFO for Guinea Gold Project
Asara Resources appointed Aurélien Douyère as chief financial officer to support development of the Kada gold project in Guinea. The company recently completed a A$60 million ($43.3 million) ...
News Guinea: Guinea Leads African Push for Self-Financed Development with $50M ADF Commitment
Guinea’s $50 million pledge made it the largest African contributor to ADF-17, positioning the country at the forefront of efforts to strengthen continent-led development finance.
News Guinea: Guinea Weighs $500 Million Sukuk as It Seeks New Path to Fund Simandou Plan
Guinea is considering a $500 million sukuk to finance major projects The move is part of efforts to diversify funding and attract private capital The Simandou 2040 plan could require over $200 billion ...
News Guinea: Unlocking Guinea’s agriculture development: creating jobs for inclusive growth
Through sustained investment and partnerships, Guinea is transforming its agricultural sector, driving inclusive growth and creating jobs. As one of 23 Agri Connect Compact countries, it now has a unique chance to accelerate this transformation and boost value addition.
News Guinea: Guinea-Conakry Deserves a Just Energy Transition and More Oil and Gas Investment During the MSGBC Oil, Gas and Power Forum in Dakar
Under pressure from climate change and energy transition directives, a growing list of oil and gas majors is shifting from fossil fuels to renewables. As a result, they’re pulling out of or reducing ...
News Guinea: 'You are not scaling Ethereum': Vitalik Buterin issues a blunt reality check to the biggest crypto networks
The roadmap in place doesn't make as much sense because progress among layer-2s toward later stages of decentralization has been slower and more difficult, and Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on layer-1.
News Guinea: Equatorial Guinea’s financial crime boss Baltasar Ebang Engonga caught in s3x scandal
Baltasar Ebang Engonga, Director General of Equatorial Guinea’s National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF), has been exposed in one of the country’s largest s3x scandals. During an investigation ...
News Guinea: Dozens killed in crowd crush at Guinea soccer match
A crowd crush at a soccer match in the west African country of Guinea has left at least 56 people dead and many others injured, authorities said Monday. Information minister Fana Soumah said in a ...
News Guinea: Guinea stadium disaster special report: ‘This door here, it’s the door to hell’
Please be advised that this article contains reporting some people may find distressing. “I loved my son very much. I can’t talk about him without crying,” says Mory Sanoh, as the tears come again and ...
News Guinea: Guinea stadium stampede kills 56 people following clashes at soccer match, authorities say
CONAKRY, Guinea — At least 56 people, including children, have died after fans at a soccer game in Guinea allegedly clashed over a disputed call by the referee, authorities said Monday. The stampede ...
News Guinea: Stadium stampede kills 56 people in Guinea following fan clashes over disputed red card
A stampede at a soccer stadium in the city of Nzerekore, Guinea, has killed 56 people, the government of Guinea said on Monday. Guinea's prime minister, Amadou Oury Bah, said in a post on X that the ...
