Africa’s Transparency Agenda
Like many African countries, Guinea has vast mineral wealth, including the world’s largest bauxite reserves and its richest undeveloped iron-ore deposits. Making these assets work for everyone requires uprooting deeply ingrained corruption – and confronting corruption's enablers in the world's financial centers.
CONAKRY – In December 2010, I became President of Guinea following the country’s first truly open and democratic elections. I said then that I had inherited a country, not a state. Our economy was in ruins, our people were among the world’s poorest, and our political system had been weakened by decades of corruption, dictatorship, and misrule.
CONAKRY – In December 2010, I became President of Guinea following the country’s first truly open and democratic elections. I said then that I had inherited a country, not a state. Our economy was in ruins, our people were among the world’s poorest, and our political system had been weakened by decades of corruption, dictatorship, and misrule.