29 JANUARY 2016www.theafricareport.com
French tycoon Xavier Niel buys stake in Guinea bauxite miner
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French telecoms tycoon Xavier Niel's NJJ Capital has acquired a minority stake in Alliance Miniere Responsable (AMR), a Paris-based company developing bauxite reserves in Guinea, AMR said on Wednesday, 24 January.
The stake, the size of which was not known, is the latest investment by one of France's richest men. Niel set up low-cost telecoms operator Iliad in France and this week was said to be eyeing a move into the U.K. market.
The specific goal behind the move was unclear, but a spokesman for AMR said that Niel wanted to diversify his portfolio, which also includes a stake in Telecom Italia.
Guinea is a major producer of bauxite, an aluminium ore, but growth has been hamstrung by a slump in metals prices and a two-year Ebola epidemic in the West African nation that killed more than 2,500 people and drove away investors. Guinea was declared free of the virus on 29 December.
Guinea President Alpha Conde last month named mining executive Mamady Youla as prime minister as part of a strategy to revive the country's ailing economy, the government said.
The stake, the size of which was not known, is the latest investment by one of France's richest men. Niel set up low-cost telecoms operator Iliad in France and this week was said to be eyeing a move into the U.K. market.
The specific goal behind the move was unclear, but a spokesman for AMR said that Niel wanted to diversify his portfolio, which also includes a stake in Telecom Italia.
Guinea is a major producer of bauxite, an aluminium ore, but growth has been hamstrung by a slump in metals prices and a two-year Ebola epidemic in the West African nation that killed more than 2,500 people and drove away investors. Guinea was declared free of the virus on 29 December.
Guinea President Alpha Conde last month named mining executive Mamady Youla as prime minister as part of a strategy to revive the country's ailing economy, the government said.
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