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 ...
News Guinea: Guinea’s bauxite exports rise in 2025 despite disputes and sector reforms
Guinea exported 182.8 million tons of bauxite in 2025, up 25% from 2024 The increase comes amid permit withdrawals, legal disputes, and sector reforms Guinea remains the world’s leading bauxite ...
News Guinea: Mamadi Doumbouya Sworn In as Guinea’s President, Vows Inclusive Governance
Mamadi Doumbouya sworn in as Guinea’s president on Jan. 17 He pledges unity, inclusive governance, jobs and institutional integrity Guinea faces poverty challenges despite strong growth outlook, World ...
News Guinea: Tinubu’s leadership and democracy restoration in Guinea
Explore President Tinubu's key leadership role within ECOWAS in navigating Guinea's democracy restoration after the 2021 military coup and its regional imp ...
News Guinea: Guinea: Agricultural supplies delivered as part of the African Development Bank’s Emergency Food Production Project
The transitional government in Guinea, in partnership with the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), has received a large consignment of agricultural supplies in Guinea’s western town of ...
News Guinea: Axis International launches $29bn Guinea arbitration claim
UNITED Arab Emirates-based Axis International has initiated a $29bn arbitration case against Guinea’s government following the revocation of its bauxite mining permit, equipment seizures and frozen ...
News Guinea: Guinea enters a new era with iron exports from world's largest untapped deposit
Guinea has begun exporting iron ore from Simandou, home to the world’s largest untapped reserves of the mineral. “Simandou must be for us what oil was for the Gulf countries,” Djiba Diakite, chief of ...
News Guinea: Emirates mining company challenges Guinea licence withdrawal
Mining company Axis International said Monday it was seeking World Bank arbitration against Guinea for withdrawing its right to operate a major bauxite mine in the west African country.
News Guinea: Guinea Coup Strains China’s Supply Chains, Tests Non-interference Policy
When Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya staged a military coup and detained Guinean President Alpha Condé on September 5, officials in Beijing were not pleased. The small West African country plays a ...
News Guinea: Guinea launches instant payment system to boost financial inclusion
The Central Bank of Guinea has launched an Instant Payment System (IPS) to improve financial inclusion, Wearetech Africa reported. First vice governor Mohamed Lamine Conte said the project stems follows a consultative process involving banks, electronic money institutions, microfinance institutions and fintech companies. He said the SPI will allow users to send and receive funds in real time, at any time of day and without geographic constraints. The system is expected to address delays linked to traditiona
