Dossier – Les barrages hydroélectriques en Guinée : D’importants investissements pour si peu de résultats !
La Guinée est parmi les pays les moins électrifiés d’Afrique. Même dans la sous-région Ouest-africaine la plupart de nosvoisins nous dépassent en termes de couverture d’électricité de leurs pays. Malgré d’importants efforts consentis par l’État ces dix dernières années pour améliorer ladesserte en énergie électrique, les villes guinéennes sont encore obscurcies par le manque d’électricité.
MARCH 23 2020
Guinea: Bauxite Mining Boom Threatens Rights
Drive for Revenue Shouldn’t Come at Local Residents’ Expense
October 4 2018
Guinea: 4,000 chimps safe in new national park
The West African country of Guinea is establishing a new forest reserve for about 4,000 chimpanzees. Moyen-Bafing National Park will cover an area of 6,426 square kilometers, making it the largest protected area for West African chimpanzees in Guinea.
November 2 2017
Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink
Even in a sanctuary set up to save them, development projects threaten Guinea’s chimpanzees.
MAY 21 2019
High Guinean Government Official in Jail
Mamadou Dia, head of wildlife division in the Ministry in charge of wildlife now in prison ! Dia has created a fraudulent hunting reserve for the Spanish safari hunter arrested recently and took bribes from him. This high level corruption facilitated the slaughter of protected species by hunters from all over the globe under the pretense of this Safari hunting.
October 22 2018
Chinese dam project in Guinea could kill up to 1,500 chimpanzees
Planned Koukoutamba dam to be built in reserve established to protect chimps from mining
Feb 28 2019
Studies downplay threat that dams pose to primates in Guinea and Indonesia, critics say
Bank helped create reserve for endangered primates, but has since funded studies used to approve dam that would flood newly created habitat
July 16 2018