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Ebola Survivors Across West Africa Share Life-Saving Tips Via Mobile App
CONAKRY, Guinea, January 5, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- #ISurvivedEbola, the groundbreaking West African multimedia campaign, has launched a new, interactive mobile app that...
Economic Prowess Dominates Diplomatic Precision: An Overview of King Mohammed VI’s Tour of Africa South of the Sahara
Increasingly in recent months, international politics has been split down the red line of foreign policy--a demarcation dividing the EU and the US from...
Guinea government still remain voiceless on the culprits of September, 28 massacre
The culprits of the massacre of over thousnads of people who took part in a political rally in a stadium at Conakry, the capital...
GUINEA RELIEF OF ITS DEBTS
Guinea has been relief of a debt of over 2.1 billion this Wednesday and has now been removed from the list of highly indebted...
Guinea: Election results raise ethnic tensions
As soon as Alpha Conde was declared the first democratically elected president of Guinea, violence broke out in pockets of Guinea's capital, Conakry. The...
Guinea: Violence over presidential election outcome feared
Results for Guinea’s presidential election are to be announced Monday, November 15, but the stage has been set for a violent showdown after one...
Guinea finally decides
Guinea has completed its first democratic election since independence from France in 1958, recording a huge voter turn out in a run-off election that...
Guinea: New electoral chief appointed amid clashes, theft, fire
Guinea's junta leader General Sekouba Konte has named a Malian citizen to head the national independent electoral commission after consultations with international representatives on...
Guinea: The longest wait for second round presidential polls
The burning down of the warehouse at Camp Samory military barracks in Guinea where voting materials for the upcoming second round presidential elections were...
Guinea-Canada: Suspicious death of ex-Junta leader’s son
Thursday, the Camara family anxiously awaited the results of an autopsy on the body of their eldest son, Moriba Camara "Junior", who was found...
Somalia: Military reinforcements from African nations begin
AU commission chairman, Jean Ping has said that two African states, Djibouti and Guinea are ready to immediately deploy a battalion each to Mogadishu...
Guinea: Court keeps electoral process in check
Guinean court has stood firm in its coordination of national elections after it rejected votes from five districts due to severe irregularities feared to...
Guinea military seek to take over power again?
In a televised speech broadcast Sunday, Guinea's Army Chief, Major Ibrahima Balde revealed a planned assassination attempt on the lives of some of the...
Guinea elections: Enraged party to dispute results in court
Numerous Sydia Touré supporters gathered Monday in the Guinean capital, Conakry, to protest alleged electoral fraud in the June 27 presidential elections. The Guinean...
Guinea: The long wait for election results
At fifty-two, Guinea, a novice in what concerns democratic practices, seems to have emerged from Sunday's first free and independent presidential election unscathed after...
Guinea holds first democratic elections
Guinea is set for its first democratic vote in half a century on Sunday after clashes between rival parties on Thursday left at least...
Guinea: The military won’t go unpunished
Nouhou Thiam, Chief of General Staff of the Guinean Army announced Wednesday that all soldiers must be held responsible for their acts, especially for...
Guinea army arrests: Payback time or Democratization?
Guinea’s top military officers close to former military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt last...
Guinea: Presidential election campaign begins
It’s official. Campaigning for the June presidential election began Monday in Guinea. The list of candidates for the election, scheduled to take place June...
Guinea’s military leader refuses postponement of elections
The head of the joint AU-UN-ECOWAS mission, General Lamine Cissé has presented his first evaluation report of the restructuring of the defense and security...
Guinea: The end of a tumultuous era?
Jean-Marie Dore, spokesperson for the Forces Vives, a coalition of political parties and civil society groups in Guinea against the military junata, has been...
Guinea: Military Leader warned to stay away from the country
Recuperating Guinea's military junta, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, has been advised not to return to Guinea, because his return, according to analysts, would destabilize...
Madagascar, Guinea, Niger get U.S. economic aid boot
The Obama administration has decided to suspend trade benefits granted under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for Guinea, Niger and Madagascar, citing...
Guinea, France, ECOWAS: Tug of war over a coup plot
The Guinean junta has accused France and its secret services of being the brains behind the assassination attempt on Guinea's president, Captain Moussa Dadis...
Guinea: Manhunts and indiscriminate tortures begin
Check-points, rampant vehicular searches, violent raids, arrests, summary executions… Loyal junta forces in Guinea are leaving no stone unturned as they seek to lay...
Guinea: Calls for democracy heighten ahead of Junta leader’s return from Morocco
West African regional group has called for an immediate return to civilian rule in Guinea as the attacked military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara...
Guinean junta leader shot in army mutiny
Guinea military leader Capt Moussa Dadis Camara has been shot in an act of mutiny that has left the West African nation and international...
London: Beauty pageant, scam, disenchantment
The beauty pageant was supposed to be the most memorable day of their lives. Yet, for the bevy of beauties gathered here, their dream...
Guinea: Junta prepares to kill its own and destabilize West Africa
A Guinean youth militia group largely recruited on ethnic basis is, reportedly, being assembled ahead of January national elections. The government of South...
The U.S. has no illusions over democracy in Guinea
“Fifty years of authoritarian rule has been debilitating to the country. Money that went to the armed forces that could have been or should...