Guinea News
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In a decree read on national television Wednesday, President Alpha Conde announced that campaigning will begin at midnight and would end at the same time on June 28. The move has taken the nation by surprise, and comes as the country's opposition leaders on Wednesday put to rest six of the 12 opposition members who were killed during last week's
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Conakry - At least 12 people have been killed in Guinea during five days of protests over preparations for a legislative election, the government of the West African state said on Monday. Guinea's opposition called its members onto the streets in March to protest at the government's plan to go ahead with the vote on June 30, over fears the
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Two of Guinea's top opposition leaders are said to have gone to Paris, France to brief the international community about the current political situation in Guinea. Cellou Dalein Diallo, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea and Lansana Kouyate, former Prime Minister and leader of the Party of Hope for National Development flew to Paris over the weekend
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Conakry - Guinea's opposition has threatened to prevent parliamentary elections taking place on June 30 unless the South African company responsible for managing the electoral roll is replaced, its leader said. Cellou Dalein Diallo, head of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), said late on Monday that his party wanted Waymark and its local partner dropped in favour
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Conakry - Health officials say a meningitis outbreak has killed at least 40 people in the West African nation of Guinea. Conde Lansine, a doctor in the eastern city of Siguiri, said on Tuesday it is feared that far more people are dying in remote villages and are not included in that toll. Siguiri, near the country's border with Mali,
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The UN Security Council on Monday expressed concern over "volatile" events in Guinea in the run-up to a bitterly contested election in June. The 15-nation council "deplored" the latest in a series of deadly clashes in the West African nation that have heightened political tensions. International fears have grown since police opened fire on demonstrators on Thursday, killing one teenager
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Conakry - An outbreak of meningitis in Guinea has killed at least 40 people since the start of the year, the health ministry said on Thursday. A total of 379 cases have been detected this year in 19 of the West African nation's 33 regions, including the capital Conakry, said a report from the ministry. Guinea lies in the so-called
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Conakry - A Guinean official says that exiled former coup leader Moussa Dadis Camara has arrived on a flight to the southern town of Nzerekore to attend the funeral of his mother. The governor of the Nzerekore region, Lancei Conde, confirmed that Camara arrived Saturday afternoon on a flight from Burkina Faso, where he been living following an attempt to
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Two months ago Guinea was abuzz with talk of a newly launched electoral commission amid signs that the country, without a parliament for five years, was finally moving towards a legislative election. Today the talk is of identifying the bodies of Guineans killed in street clashes and of preventing a slide into inter-ethnic bloodshed. The trigger for the latest unrest
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Conakry - Anti-riot police fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters who barricaded streets and threw stones at vehicles in the capital, Conakry on Tuesday. Political tensions are rising in Guinea before national elections on 12 May. The young opposition supporters said they would make the city a ghost town on Tuesday. They put tree trunks and rocks in the
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Witnesses say three people were killed, dozens wounded and at least three women raped in an army crackdown on protesters in the town of Gueckedou, located 700 kilometers (430 miles) southeast of Guinea's capital, Conakry. Sayon Teliano, one of the emergency personnel, said three bodies were brought to the morgue. The events occurred Tuesday when the
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Conakry - Guinea's national electoral commission says it plans to hold long-awaited legislative elections in May. Commission President Bakary Fofana made the announcement on national television late on Tuesday. But opposition spokesperson Mouctar Diallo expressed disapproval, calling the 13 May date a unilateral decision by the commission president. The electoral commission's composition has been a source of tension in this
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Conakry — Trade union leaders in Guinea are contemplating a general strike over salary demands and other grievances, after the government proposed a raise for civil servants far lower than unions are demanding. "It's starting," said an analyst in the capital Conakry, referring to friction, as the government's call for continued belt-tightening loses some of its force now that Guinea
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Human rights groups applaud the creation of a new Cabinet post dedicated to human rights in Guinea, which has one of the worst records in West Africa, following a shocking 2009 massacre. In that incident peaceful protesters were mowed down by the military inside the national soccer stadium, and dozens of women were gang raped. Thierno
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Conakry - Anti-riot police on Friday dispersed protesters in the Medina market of Guinea's capital, after a riot broke out between sellers from the Peul and Malinke ethnic groups, the two largest ethnicities in the country, according to witnesses. By afternoon, the riots had spread to other parts of the city and in Peul-dominated areas of the capital, residents were
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Five people died and about 30 are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Guinea on Friday, a paramilitary police source said. The flat-bottomed boat -- known as a pirogue -- which can carry about 20 people "capsized at sea a few minutes after leaving the quay" in the direction of Kassa Island a few kilometres from the
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An outbreak of cholera in Guinea has killed 60 people since February and is showing no signs of letting up, the country's health ministry said Thursday. Officials have registered 2,054 cases, with the capital Conakry and the south-western city of Forecariah worst affected. Thirteen people have died in Conakry and 23 in Forecariah. The NGO Doctors Without Borders said in
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Guinean President Alpha Conde on Tuesday promised that much-delayed parliamentary polls would be organised by the end of the year. Legislative polls were theoretically due to have been held within six months of his inauguration in December 2010 but have been repeatedly postponed. Conde, who last announced a postponement in April, told AFP in Paris that he hoped fresh polls
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Conakry - Guinea's state resources company Soguipami will pay back a $25m loan agreed with investment company Palladino Capital, the West African state's finance minister said on Monday. South Africa's Palladino last week denied a report by British newspaper Sunday Times that default on the loan would lead to the minerals-rich nation losing about 30% of its resources worth billions
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Conakry - Guinea's opposition said on Tuesday that at least 60 of its supporters were being held by authorities after a protest on 10 May which turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators. "At least 60 of our members and sympathisers have been in prison since 10 May and the days following the peaceful march... We demand their immediate release
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Guinea police seized over 800 pieces of ivory, including sculptures and elephant tusks, in the capital Conakry during a raid that led to six arrests, police said Friday. The arrests were made on May 19 and 21, a police official said on condition of anonymity. Security forces "seized over 800 objects made with elephant ivory" including large sculptures and raw
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Guinean opposition leaders on Monday announced a national protest campaign beginning May 10, to demand talks with President Alpha Conde's government on the holding of delayed legislative elections. "We have decided to express our frustration through marches and other demonstrations," said Cellou Dalein Diallo, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea. He was speaking at a press conference
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Guinean President Alpha Conde announced the indefinite postponement of parliamentary elections that were scheduled for July 8 after previous delays, citing "technical problems". "I do not convene the electorate for July 8... because I'm not sure that everything is normal, that all technical problems are resolved," the president said in a declaration on state media, on Friday. "We had presidential
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In recent weeks, Guinea's President Alpha Conde and the opposition have failed to resolve differences over the conduct of the legislative elections set for July 8. Opposition groups have repeatedly maintained that elections must be preceded by the reconstitution of the electoral commission, to allow for greater opposition representation, and an audit and update of the voters' register. The government,
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Officials from the China Development Bank (CDB) are offering to finance a substantial part of the Conakry government's US$8.6 billion overhaul of mining and industrial infratructure, according to a source close to negotiations. Chinese mining companies are looking at Guinea's world-class reserves of iron ore and bauxite, and many of the proposed road, rail and electric power projects would be
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