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Tighter Border Procedures Will Not Affect Close Relations With Cameroon, Says Equatorial Guinea
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10 April 2012 Market Watch - 9 April 2012 MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Procedures are aimed at controlling illegal immigration The Government of Equatorial Guinea said today that relations with neighboring Cameroon remain strong, despite changes in security at the Kye-Ossi border. Security alterations were recently made in order to prevent people from entering Equatorial Guinea illegally. Equatorial Guinea is a destination for people from nearby countries to enter illegally looking for work in its growing economy. According to government officials, local…
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Rio Tinto and Chalco invest in the mining sector in Guinea
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9 August 2010 Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has entered into a joint venture with the Chinese company Chalco to exploit an iron mine in south east Guinea. Rio Tinto announced on Tuesday 3…
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Guinea: Launch of works on Conakry-Kankan railroad
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25 February 2011 Last Tuesday, the first stone was laid for the railroad between Conakry and Kankan in Guinea, in the presence of the former Brazilian president Lula da Silva and Guinean president Alpha Condé. Running for a distance of 662 km, it will facilitate the transport of goods and people across the country, and should have a major impact on the economic growth and the development of Guinea. This project, which requires financing to the value of 600 million dollars, will be implemented by the Brazilian company Vale. "Today is the start of the complete reconstruction of Guinea", said Alpha Condé,…
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Guinea Bissau: WB allocates 2.2 million dollars to electricity infrastructure project
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26 May 2011 The World Bank has just awarded an additional grant of 2.2 million dollars to the Emergency Electricity and Water Rehabilitation Project in Guinea-Bissau. Senior energy economist of the World Bank, Moez Cherif indicated in a press release reported last week by the newspaper SudQuotidien that: "the Emergency Electricity and Water Rehabilitation Project is just the first step towards…
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Guinea: 34 million USD from WB for submarine cable project
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4 July 2011 The World Bank has just granted 34 million dollars to the submarine cable project in Guinea. "The implementation of this project will reduce the costs of communication by 75%, which will encourage investment in the country and promote Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)", said the World Bank's manager in Guinea, Siaka Bakayoko, last Wednesday, as reported by Guinée News. According to the minister for post and telecommunications, Oyé Guilavogui, with this project, all Guineans will have access to telephone, television and high-speed Internet at a lower cost. He believes that it will breathe new life…
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African Development Bank grants over 37 million USD for infrastructure in Guinea
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22 February 2011 The African Development Bank (ADB) has just signed a number of financing agreements with the government of Guinea amounting to a total of 37.6 million dollars. These funds are destined for several energy and social development infrastructure projects in Guinea, notably with 23.4 million dollars being allocated to a rural electrification project and 2.6 million dollars for a survey on the interconnection of the electricity grid between Guinea and Mali, reports a press release from the institution published by the newspaper Le Jour Guinée. A further 7.8 million dollars will be allocated…
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China offers to Overhaul Guinea's Infrastructure
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29 March 2012 allAfrica.com - March 29, 2012 Officials from the China Development Bank (CDB) are offering to finance a substantial part of the Conakry government's US$8.6 billion overhaul of mining and industrial infratructure, according to a source close to negotiations. Chinese mining companies are looking at Guinea's world-class reserves of iron ore and bauxite, and many of the proposed road, rail and electric power projects would be financed through countertrade for mineral exports. Since President Alpha Condé came to power in November 2010, his government has made little progress in unscrambling…
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Guinea to benefit from $23m AfDB grant
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27 January 2011 An energy infrastructure project in Guinea is to be funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB). A $23 million (£14.5 million) grant will help with the rural electrification project and 60,000 people are to gain access to the national interconnected grid as a result. Once it has been completed, the rural electrification rate will increase from three per cent in 2009 to 15 per cent…
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$700m windfall for Guinea infrastructure
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19 October 2011 The government of Guinea will use part of a $700 million (£442 million) windfall payment to rebuild the nation's broken infrastructure, reports Reuters. Around 35 per cent of the funds will be used for projects in the mineral-rich West African nation after a deal was struck with Anglo-American miner Rio Tinto, resolving a dispute over its stake in the Simandou iron-ore project.…
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EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund
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Environmental viability, and mitigation of potential impacts Provision for sustainable operation and maintenance Countries Mauritania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland,…