[Africa In Fact] Scholar Richard Auty first coined the phrase 'resource curse' in 1993 to illustrate the confounding nature of the relationship between natural resource abundance and under-development. Intuitively we expect that natural resources wou...

[DW] Mining tycoon Beny Steinmetz has appeared in a Geneva court where he is facing trial for allegedly paying bribes to win lucrative mining rights in Guinea.

[Monusco] United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Bintou Keita of Guinea as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the C...

[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists] Swiss prosecutors allege that the Israeli billionaire and business associates bribed a wife of the former Guinean president to obtain lucrative mining rights.

[Public Eye] Today, a historic trial is starting in Calvin's city. Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz faces charges of "corruption of foreign public officials" and "document forgery" with two business partners. He is alleged to have arranged the tran...

[RFI] Guinea is testing the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik despite the scepticism of a large part of the general population. The first person to take the vaccine was the minister for defence Mohamed Diane.

[MAP] Rabat -- The national team of local players will play two friendly matches against their Guinean counterpart on January 8 and 11 in Rabat.

[The Herald] Vice President Kembo Mohadi says he has been given a comprehensive briefing by Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal, James Maridadi, and is now ready to engage authorities here to establish areas of cooperation.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The United States has strengthened a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) by imposing tougher penalties and making prosecutions easier - a step campaigners hope will bolster global efforts to eradicate the practice.

[GFO] The RAME, Réseau d'Accès aux Médicaments Essentiels (Access to Essential Medicines Network), commissioned a study in 2019 on community organizations' good practices, opportunities, and limitations in ensuring continuity of care in challengin...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- A message from the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, was handed over Tuesday in Conakry to his counterpart of the Republic of Guinea Conakry, Alpha Condé.