Guinea Headlines
- Expert Shares How Collaborative Efforts Protect Natural Resources and Citizen Interests With the support of government and civil society alike, new initiatives aim to ensure that commercial enterprises respect Guinea’s land and its people.
- Guinea Program Empowers Communities to Undertake Reconciliation Efforts In December 2010, Professor Alpha Condé was sworn in as Guinea’s first democratically elected president after a succession of authoritarian governments, whose leaders suppressed opposition and entrenched corruption and impunity. This leadership legacy has created a vast gap between the rich and the poor, eroded public trust in state institutions and contributed to a range of ethnic tensions—which threaten Guinea’s stability.
- Draft Mining Legislation Seeks to Protect the Interests of Local Guinean Communities
- In July 2012, the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI), with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, began to work with the Centre du Commerce International pour le Développement (CECIDE), to provide technical support to the legislative drafting efforts of relevant Guinean ministries.
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