Guinea has taken a major step towards modernising and increasing the transparency of its mining sector with the official launch of the digital mining cadastre management platform, DAMANDA.
The new Guinean mining cadastre platform was launched at a ceremony presided over by Djiba Diakite, Chief of Staff to the President and Chairman of the Simandou Strategic Committee. Led by the Simandou Strategic Committee through the Ministry of Mines and Geology, the DAMANDA platform marks a structural reform of Guinea’s mining administration.
It is the culmination of a comprehensive process to streamline, secure, and digitise the mining cadastre, aiming to strengthen transparency, traceability, administrative efficiency, and the sector’s attractiveness to national and international investors.
Djiba Diakite highlighted the symbolic significance of the name DAMANDA, which means “mine quarry” in the Malinke language. This choice reflects a commitment to promoting national languages and cultural heritage, similar to other public platforms such as TELEMO, dedicated to public procurement, or SONEYA, used for budget execution.
“With DAMANDA, we are choosing modern, transparent, and responsible mining governance, based on collective intelligence and exclusively focused on the interests of the sovereign people of Guinea,” declared the Chairman of the Simandou Strategic Committee.
The launch of the platform aligns with the vision of Guinean leader, Mamadi Doumbouya, who places good governance, digitalisation, and economic sovereignty at the heart of public
action.
DAMANDA is aligned with the objectives of the Simandou 2040 Sustainable and Responsible Socio-Economic Development Program, designed to make the mining sector a strategic driver of value
creation, job creation, and sustainable development.
For the Minister of Mines and Geology, Bouna Sylla, DAMANDA goes beyond mere technology. It reflects the state’s unwavering commitment to breaking with opaque practices, bureaucratic red tape, and risks of corruption that have long plagued Guinea’s mining sector.
The platform offers several key functionalities, including the fully digital submission and tracking of applications for mining titles and permits, secure validation of authorisations by the competent
authorities, and interactive cadastral maps allowing real-time visualisation of allocated, available, or pending areas.
These tools aim to make every decision traceable, verifiable, and accessible, thereby strengthening institutional credibility.
DAMANDA will support the implementation of major infrastructure projects, particularly the integrated Simandou iron ore project, while propelling Guinea toward the Simandou 2040 horizon, a symbol of its national ambition and international standing.
The launch ceremony brought together government officials, technical and financial partners, private sector representatives, diplomatic missions, and international organizations, demonstrating the strategic importance attached to this reform.
In closing his remarks, Djiba Diakite called on all public and private stakeholders to embrace the DAMANDA platform and make it a tool for trust, stability, and shared progress.
“DAMANDA is not an end in itself, but a starting point for a more modern, rigorous, and exemplary mining administration,” he concluded, before officially launching the platform for managing mining titles and permits in the Republic of Guinea.
With DAMANDA, Guinea affirms its commitment to making its mining sector an African model of governance and a pillar of the structural transformation of its economy.
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