Guinea’s mines minister has ordered all work related to the Simandou iron ore mine project to be halted after the two companies involved missed an extended deadline to agree on a joint venture. In a July 3 letter seen by the Reuters news agency on Monday and addressed to Rio Tinto’s Guinea subsidiary Simfer SA […]
Amira Toureche, a 29-year-old Algerian PhD student living in the United Kingdom, was never able to meet her grandfather. He was killed by French colonial forces in Algeria when Toureche’s father was only six years old. “My granddad and his brother used to have a large amount of land in Ouled Hamla,” Toureche told Al […]