Guinea coup leaders meet mining execs as ECOWAS talks next steps
Al Jazeera
Mining company representatives in Guinea say they held ‘promising’ talks with Colonel Mamady Doumbouya in Conakry.
Guinea’s military rulers have held talks with mining executives as part of a series of meetings to chart its political future, just as West Africa’s main regional bloc held an emergency summit to discuss the uncertainty gripping the country in the wake of a coup earlier this month that removed President Alpha Conde.
The power grab on September 5 drew international condemnation, and also saw the price of aluminium reach its highest level in more than a decade. Guinea is one of the world’s top producers of bauxite, the ore used to make aluminium.
On Thursday, an official working in Guinea for Russian aluminium giant Rusal told the AFP news agency that talks between coup leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, and mining company representatives in the capital, Conakry, had been “promising”.
