We've covered Guinea's Benny Steinmetz/BSGR/Vale/Rio Tinto fiasco a few times now, and an interesting story it is too, worthy of a 24-episode box set in the style of Scandinavian noir, only (probably) a bit less murdery and more explicitly sleazy.  For context, here’s a non-exhaustive bunch of examples to refresh the memory:

Guinea: BSGR strikes back (8 May)
Simandou gets murkier - suits ahoy (1 May)
Wrongs righted round-up (22 April)
Global Witness Sued in Escalating Feud with BSGR (19 Dec 2013)
Guinea contemplates seizing Simandou asset (10 Dec 2013)

Now, however, the story’s gone truly global. No less prestigious an organ than New York’s New Yorker, literati fan mag and home of the weirdly pretentious umlaut,  has picked up on the story - under the fun tagline Two mining behemoths battle an Israeli billionaire. And lest your correspondent get carried away by his/her irritation at unnecessarily östentatious diaereses, a jolly good read it is too.

See more hëre.

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https://www.csr21.org/news/risk/guinea-bsgr-strikes-back
https://www.csr21.org/news/geopolitical/simandou-gets-murkier-suits-ahoy
https://www.csr21.org/news/geopolitical/wrongs-righted-round
https://www.csr21.org/content/global-witness-sued-escalating-feud-bsgr
https://www.csr21.org/news/risk/guinea-contemplates-seizing-simandou-asset
https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/06/two-mining-behemo...