In Guinea, poverty tests Alpha Conde's economic record
Daily Monitor Sunday January 10 2021 Current President and presidential candidate, Alpha Conde greets his supporters at a campaign rally in Conakry on October 16, 2020. AFP PHOTO Summary Bady Balde, the deputy executive director of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a civil-society group, said the government had made some progress in the mining sector, particularly on tax transparency. In Conakry, huge campaign posters of Conde, decked in the yellow colours of his party, hang by the hectic roadsides. They bear the slogan, "shared prosperity". Diabate Famoro, the struggling boilerm...