Guinea: Explainer – Liberia, Guinea and Ivanhoe: the Backstory to a Shared Rail Corridor

As public debate intensifies over whether Liberia acted properly in allowing Ivanhoe Atlantic to pursue shipment of Guinean ore through the Yekepa-Buchanan railway, many Liberians are only now learning that the two countries have had a formal cross-border transport framework in place for years.

Far from blindsiding the Republic of Guinea, the Ivanhoe Agreement builds upon a long-standing–and jointly negotiated–legal architecture specifically created to enable Guinean mining companies to access…