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The West African nation of Guinea is bracing for more postelection unrest after the country's Election Commission on Saturday declared full preliminary results showing President Alpha Conde was...
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One dead in Guinea protest, mine trains stop Reuters 1st November 2008 CONAKRY - One person has been killed in Guinea during protests over a lack of electricity that have also stopped the trains used by a major mining firm, a police official said on Saturday. "Yesterday (Friday) the demonstrators attacked houses owned by government officials.
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What Guinea does have is minerals, in abundance. It is the world's second-largest producer of bauxite, the ore that contains aluminium, crucial for industry the world over. It also has iron ore, gold and diamonds. Mining is crucial to Guinea. It accounts for 78 per cent of all export earnings and 18 per cent of GDP.
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Sep. 25, 2017, 10:57 AM CONAKRY, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Bauxite mining companies have resumed normal operations in Guinea's Boke region as local authorities try to negotiate a definitive end to unrest...
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Oct 19, 2019Guinea's opposition has denounced what it says is Russian interference. Protesters last week made their feelings clear by blockading a Rusal-owned railway line used to transport bauxite. Their ...
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(3 minutes read) Guinea's ruling junta is taking steps to promote the processing of minerals in the country to derive more benefits and to create large-scale employment.The head of the military junta, who rules the country now has given foreign companies until the end of May to submit proposals and a timetable for the construction of bauxite refineries
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According to a Bloomberg report, Guinea has become a key producer of bauxite, and almost all its exports serve China's vast aluminium industry. As such, the coup could bring about industry disruptions and force aluminium prices to rise. A ship carrying bauxite from Guinea is unloaded at a port in Yantai, Shandong province, China, 15 May 2017.
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Bauxite is leading Guinea's current mining growth, with production of gold and diamonds stagnant. ... The population in and around Boké launched several protests in 2017 and 2018 to complain about the lack of jobs and electricity. The government recently launched a couple of programmes to direct more mining revenue to local communities ...
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Guinea is the world's second-largest producer of bauxite, an ore used to make aluminium, and a key supplier of bauxite to China. It produced 83 million tonnes of bauxite in 2021, Guinea's mines ...
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UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet calls on Guinea to bring justice to the over 150 opposition supporters killed in a massacre in Conakry in 2009, when soldiers opened fire on protesters (see September 2009). An investigation into the case was completed in 2017, but since then not much has happened.
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Mar. 15, 2018 by Staff Violent protests have again rocked several cities in the western African nation of Guinea, disrupting bauxite ore shipments from the country in the process. The late unrest was touched off by the government's failure to publish the results of an election last month the ruling party says it won.
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Jun 7, 2021In Solomon Islands, a bauxite mine on Rennell Island has scarred a once-pristine landscape and been the cause of environmental disasters - spills of oil and bauxite into the island's fishing...
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Guinea doubled its production of bauxite between 2016 and 2017 and is on the way to double it again by 2019. Politics has become much less erratic; the state is much more predictable, and its institutions work in a more regular fashion. ... major protests against the long delay in local elections. The government handled these protests in
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The authorities' response to the protests has already been deadly. At least 14 protesters have been killed by security forces since Oct. 24, according to the opposition. This week the ICC's chief...
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The government finally authorized several anti-constitution protests beginning October 24, although disagreement over the route of a November 14 protest led to clashes between protesters and...
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Guinea: Bauxite, Coups and AFRICOM. September 22, 2021 . By Rosa Moro - Sep 18, 2021. In the last 13 years, all the military coup leaders in Africa have been trained and instructed by AFRICOM. ... More than 60 years later, the colonization they had to fight against was the mental one. Sékou Touré led Guinea until his death on 26 March 1984 ...
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The ore will be used in the upcoming 2 million-tonne capacity Taweelah refinery
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Some employees of Guinea Bauxite Company (CBG) mine in Boke were unable to reach work because of street barricades, slowing operations at the mine, a CBG official told Reuters. Conde's first election win in 2010 raised hopes for democratic progress in Guinea after two years of military rule and nearly a quarter a century under authoritarian ...
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Bauxite mining companies have resumed normal operations in Guinea's Boke region as local authorities try to negotiate a definitive end to unrest that has disrupted production...
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Several thousand opponents of Guinea's President Alpha Conde protested in the capital Conakry on Wednesday against election delays and insecurity, as political tensions...
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How bauxite mining company, Guinea Alumina Corporation, relies on Intelligence Fusion to better protect their operations ... Mostly protests, criminality and hazard-related incidents. We need to be made quickly aware of any developments that can drive people to protest, block roads, rails or transport networks which can seriously impact our ...
Get priceGuinea - the focus of this paper - remains one of the poorest countries in the world, despite its vast deposits of high-quality bauxite. It possesses an estimated 30 percent of global bauxite reserves and in 2012, mining accounted for approximately one quarter of the country's gross domestic product and 85 percent of its export earnings.
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Jan 6, 2022Despite the ongoing protests, no structural changes were made. ... with genuine experience and expertise related to Guinea and its bauxite mining regions. ... join a growing community of more than ...
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Sep 7, 2021Guinea has the world's largest reserves of bauxite, the globe's main source of aluminum. Prices of aluminum spiked to a 10-year high Monday on the London Metal Exchange amid fears of global supply...
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After an announcement of a nationwide curfew, Mamady said that ports in the world's second-largest bauxite producer would remain open and the curfew in mining areas had been lifted "to ensure continuity of production". Guinea supplies a quarter of the world's bauxite, mostly to China and Russia as the main ingredient in aluminum refining.
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Guinea is the world's second-largest producer of bauxite, an ore used to make aluminium, and a key supplier of bauxite to China. It produced 83-million tonnes of bauxite in 2021, Guinea's mines ...
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24 October 2020 AFP Opposition supporters have been clashing with the police for months over the controversial elections Guinea's President Alpha Condé has won a controversial third term in office,...
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CONAKRY - Guinea's government has approved a more than $2.8 billion investment by Chinese company TBEA Co Ltd in a new bauxite mine, an aluminium refinery and an aluminium smelter, the mines...
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The 2019-2020 Guinean protests were a series of violent protests and mass civil unrest in Guinea against the rule of Alpha Conde that first broke out on October 14, ... Guinea has 25% or more of the world's known bauxite reserves. It has diamonds, gold, and other metals. ... Some vehicles in Guinea are more than 20 years old, and cabs are any ...
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One of the top five regions in the world with the largest deposits of bauxite, India's bauxite production is expected to increase from 22.08 million tons in 2016 to 49.4 million tons by 2021 ...
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Some employees of the Guinea Bauxite Company (CBG) mine in Boke were unable to get to work because of barricades in the streets, slowing operations there, a CBG official told Reuters. Conde's first election win in 2010 raised hopes for democratic progress in Guinea after two years of military rule and nearly a quarter a century under ...
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There were more protests in the northeastern town of Kouroussa because of power cuts. In the bauxite mining city of Kamsar, a man was reported dead and the mayor's home torched after protesters ...
Get priceThe protestors made a list of 35 claims, including the claim for water and electricity supplies, youth employment by the city's mining companies, asphalting the urban roads and the construction of a road so the bauxite trucks would bypass the city. The clashes continued during the month of May and tensions also took place in the town of Kamsar.
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Bauxite is the main source of aluminum, much of which is processed in China. Guinea accounts for about 22% of the world's production of bauxite, producing 82 million tonnes in 2020, according to...
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The move had been controversial and sparked massive protests before and after the referendum, which were brutally repressed, causing more than thirty deaths between October 2019 and March 2020. [2] After the constitutional amendment was approved, Condé won the 2020 presidential election and thus a third term in office.
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Sep 7, 2021Guinea accounted for a tiny sliver of global bauxite production when Condé took office in 2010. Eleven years later, that share had surged to 22 percent — thanks to a massive deal the president ...
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Yet more than 70% of the population eke out a living on less than the equivalent of $3.20 a day. Guineans tell pollsters that corruption has been getting worse. In recent weeks the government has ...
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - At least one policeman and a protester were killed on Monday during demonstrations in Guinea against a possible change to the constitution that could let President Alpha Conde...
Get priceApr 2, 2020Inland there are generous deposits of iron ore and Guinea is the biggest exporter of bauxite to China. ... Since October more than 40 people have died in protests organised by the Front National ...
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By Georges Gobet (AFP/File) CONAKRY (AFP) - At least one person was killed and some 30 were injured as Guinean soldiers fired on a crowd protesting electricity cuts in the port city of Kamsar north of the capital Conakry, residents and officials said Tuesday.
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