Despite the slowdown in the Chinese economy and the resulting slump in commodity prices, a consortium of Chinese, Singaporean, and Guinean companies are due to ramp up bauxite ore mining in the West African country of Guinea from 10 to 15 million tons this year, before reaching 30 million tons in 2017.
It’s been ten months since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa hit the headlines. And in contrast to Guinea and Liberia where cases have begun slowing down, in Sierra Leone the opposite is true.