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Guinea: UN official investigates September 28th massacre
A senior UN official has started his investigation into the killing of opposition demonstrators in Guinea reports BBC. UN Assistant Secretary General Haile Menkerios...
Guinea – France: France urges its citizens to leave Guinea
According to France24, French foreign Ministry has urged french nationals to leave Guinea due to the deteriorating security situation following September 28th deadly massacre....
Guinea: EU calls for justice, ECOWAS warns of dictatorship
The European Union is demanding that Guinean military junta, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, stand in court for trials of oppression and crimes against humanity....
Guinea: EU calls for Camara’s trial
According to the BBC, The European Union has called for the trial of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, Guinea’s military leader, for crimes against humanity...
Nigeria – Guinea – Niger: African Nations to hold talks on Guinea and Niger political crisis
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has called for a one-day summit in Abuja this week to hold talks on the political crisis in Guinea and...
Guinea: Mixed feelings over Chinese take over of Guinea’s Bauxite mines
China has agreed to take over all mining rights to Guinea’s reserves of bauxite, and construct ports, railway lines, power plants, low-cost housing and...
Guinea: China plans to invest millions in Guinea
China is planning to invest as much as €7 million on Guinean infrastructure. According to Bloomberg, Mines Minister Mahmoud Thiam stated in a telephone...
Guinea: Post-massacre protest
According to the Independent Online, labor unions called on residents to observe a “day of prayer” and stay at home today, Monday. Markets, banks,...
Amid the bloodbath, harrowing tales of rape
A brutal army crackdown on an opposition rally in the Guinean capital of Conakry, in which more than 150 people were killed and scores...
Guinea: Soldiers target journalists as crisis continues
Soldiers in Conakry have been addressing journalists in a very threatening manner, with such comments as "If you go out the door, I'll cut...
Guinea: Military government ready to investigate shooting
According to the BBC, the military government of Guinea has declared it will set up a commission to investigate the shooting of protesters, which...
Guinea: Opposition calls for Camara’s Resignation
Guinean opposition parties say they refuse to engage in talks with the junta, unless Captain Dadis Camara resigns, wrote Bloomberg. The opposition also demands...
Guinea: Clinton wants the military junta to step down
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, declared, during a conference with the Pakistani Foreign Minister yesterday, that the Guinean military junta “cannot remain in...
Guinea: Tensions between Guinea and France rise
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara attacked French Foreign Minister today, claiming that former colonial power France denigrates Africa.
Last Sunday, Kouchner underlined the extreme violence, which...
Guinea: A macabre morning in Conakry
It is a heart-wrenching day at the Grand Mosque of Conakry. To mark the Independence day celebrations, the authorities have released the remains of...
Guinea: Junta leader held “hostage” by the military and people
Under pressure from Guineans and the international community to give up his decision to run in the pending January 2010 presidential elections, Captain Dadis...
Guinea: Journalists receive death threats
Mouctar Bah, Guinea correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Radio France Internationale (RFI) and Amadou Diallo of the British Broadcastiong Corporation (BBC) have received...
Guinea: Dadis Camara, a “hostage” of the army
Captain Dadis Camara, head of the Guinean military junta, described himself as a "hostage" of the army in an interview with RFI and AFP,...
Guinea military massacre: “This is only the beginning”
As announced, and despite a ban issued by the authorities Sunday, key political and civil society personalities were able to mobilize a large portion...
Heavy protests against Dadis Moussa Camara in Guinea
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Thursday in Labe, Guinea's second city, against a scheduled visit by junta leader Moussa Camara Dadis on Saturday,...
Guinea: presidential election in January 2010…
According to Africaguinée.com, Guinean nationals will go to the polls on 31 January 2010 to elect their president. According to the information site, the...
Guinea: Party leader and former minister arrested
Aboubacar Sylla, a former Guinean information minister, was arrested Tuesday morning by men clad in military uniform. The ex minister was picked up in...
Guinea: seizure of large quantities of drugs discovered in Conakry
Guinean national radio reported on Tuesday that large quantities of drugs and explosives had been found in buildings under construction in Conakry. The buildings...
Guinea: Military leader to attack media if …
Within the framework of the Mano River Union summit which was to take place in Conakry from 14 to 15 July, the Guinean Head...
Guinea under rebel threat
A rebel attack is being prepared in Guinea Bissau and the Casamance region in Senegal, against Guinea, Conakry has announced. According to officials, the...
Guinea – Conakry: A view from Dadis Camara’s lounge
It is nearly dusk in Conakry and a convoy of journalists including Afrik-news.com’s special envoy to Guinea has just arrived at the very heart...
Guinea’s junta makes conflicting election declarations
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, the Guinean head of state who came into power through a bloodless coup d'état in December has assured Guineans that...
Guinea: Junta extending decades of misrule?
The December 2008 military coup in Guinea, coupled with a failure to hold free and fair elections in 2009, would only confirm the West...
Guinean officials propose election dates for 2009
Suffering the consequences of its suspension from ECOWAS, the west African economic bloc, amid other international restrictions, politicians in Guinea have proposed that elections...
Guinea’s junta brings corrupt “cocaine” officials to book
A crackdown on cocaine smuggling by Guinea’s military junta has netted the son of the former president and a string of senior police officers,...