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Conakry - Legislative elections in Guinea, delayed for months due to disputes between the ruling party and the opposition, will now take place on July 8, the electoral commission announced on Thursday. Louceni Camara, head of the national independent electoral commission (CENI), said the body would audit and revise the electoral lists which would be published in May. Guinea was
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Conakry - A Guinean court has filed charges against a top army officer over the killing of scores of protesters and mass rape of women during a 2009 demonstration against military rule, rights groups said. Colonel Moussa Tiegboro Camara, secretary of state in charge of fighting organised crime, is the highest-level official yet to be charged over the massacre, one
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Guinea has indefinitely postponed legislative elections initially set for December 29 to meet opposition demands for a role in planning the polls to prevent fraud, officials said. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) has also suspended its activity for two weeks, as demanded by the opposition, CENI said in a statement issued late Sunday. CENI took the decision after meeting
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Employees of the largest bauxite company in Guinea, the world's top exporter of the mineral, have suspended their open-ended strike to obtain pay raises, union leaders said Saturday. "We have decided to suspend our strike action after mediation by Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana, who has promised to get involved to ensure that the workers prevail," said Seku Omar Ly,
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Conakry — Politics remain ethnically divisive in Guinea a year after violent clashes marred a bitterly divided Presidential election. Analysts and civil servants say more concerted reconciliation efforts between ethnic groups are needed on the part of the President and opposition leaders to avoid another pitched battle in upcoming legislative elections. Voting was originally scheduled for the end of 2011,
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara arrived in Conakry on Thursday for a one day visit in which he and his Guinean counterpart Alpha Conde will discuss reconciliation efforts in their troubled countries. The neighbouring west African nations "both held presidential elections at the end of 2010 under high socio-political tension", the Guinean presidency said in a statement. Reconciliation efforts launched
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Conakry - Guinean President Alpha Conde has announced the retirement of over 4 000 soldiers and paramilitary officers, many of whom are long past the legal age at which they should have stepped down. "This year more than 4 000 soldiers and paramilitary officers will retire before December," Conde said in a statement on national radio and television stations on
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Conakry - A large truck ploughed into cars and pedestrians in a populous suburb of Guinea's capital Conakry late on Friday, killing at least 20 people, national television reported. "Some 20 people were killed and many others injured in an accident in Dabondy," the broadcaster reported. Television showed images of dead and mutilated bodies, which overwhelmed rescue workers attempting to
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The price of fuel increased by 27 percent at the pumps in Guinea on Monday, bringing the price of petrol to 9,500 Guinean francs (one euro, $1,37) a litre, double the price 10 months ago. Government announced the increase in the price of diesel and petrol from 7,500 to 9,500 francs on Sunday. In December, fuel cost 4,500 francs before
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Guinea football legend and Sports minister Titi Camara expects the Syli Nationale to come out of Abuja with a victory when both sides face off on October 8 to decide for a ticket at next year’s Afcon.
Guinea top the group with three points ahead of Nigeria and need just a draw to progress or loss
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The Guinean government on Thursday asked to meet with opposition parties after clashes between protesters and security forces earlier this week left two dead and about 40 injured.
Police arrested more than 300 people when opposition supporters, calling for electoral reform and defying a government ban on rallies, confronted large numbers of officers throughout the capital
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Rights groups denounced Guinea's government as police fanned out across the capital following deadly clashes that overshadowed what had been intended as a day of national reconciliation.
Police raided opposition strongholds in the capital Conakry on Wednesday, arresting dozens, witnesses said.
The crackdown came a day after clashes between protesters and security forces
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Guinean police fanned out across the capital on Wednesday as deadly unrest overshadowed a "day of national reconciliation" and rights groups warned the government was repeating the mistakes of its autocratic predecessors.
Police descended into opposition strongholds in the capital Conakry, arresting dozens, witnesses said, a day after clashes between protesters and security forces left two
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Opposition supporters attempting to join a march were violently dispersed on Tuesday, and at least four people were killed when paramilitary police seized control of traffic circles and lobbed tear gas at people walking toward the meeting point, an official said.
Opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who lost last year's election to
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Opposition supporters attempting to join a march that had been pre-authorized by the government Tuesday found themselves unable to leave their neighborhoods, as paramilitary police seized control of traffic circles and lobbed tear gas at people walking toward the meeting point.
Even though witnesses say police opened fire with live bullets in at least one neighborhood,
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Guinean police on Tuesday prevented an opposition rally in the capital, amid growing concern that the historic gains made in last year's polls could be reversed in upcoming December elections.
Dozens of vehicles of the police and paramilitary forces prevented access to the September 28 stadium, where the rally was planned, and blocked off access roads
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The historic gains Guinea made in holding widely-applauded elections last year could be reversed if the West African nation's upcoming vote is mishandled, a democracy watchdog said Sunday.
Alpha Conde's November 2010 election, in a flawed but credible vote, gave Guinea "an extraordinary opportunity to end 50 years of authoritarianism and economic stagnation," the International Crisis
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Guinean President Alpha Conde said Sunday that a failed assassination attempt on him in July was plotted in the Senegalese capital Dakar, with the complicity of Senegal and Gambia.
In an interview with the private Senegalese radio station Sud FM, Conde named three people who he said had met in Dakar's Meridien President Hotel to plan
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The president of Guinea, Alpha Conde has pardoned 17 opposition members who were jailed for taking part in an illegal rally in April to welcome defeated presidential candidate Cellou Diallo on his return from a four months foreign trip.
President Conde's gesture could be seen as a way to foster reconciliation and promote unity and stability
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Leaders of Guinean opposition parties on Friday announced the creation of a new coalition, the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), ahead of legislative polls which should be held this year.
The declaration of the creation of the group came from six opposition parties but others "are set to join us soon," said former information minister
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A Guinean opposition coalition said Thursday it has handed the government a memorandum calling for free and transparent legislative polls to be held as soon as possible.
The "Collective of Political Parties for the Finalisation of the Electoral Process" met with Interior Minister Alhassane Conde on Wednesday to hand him the memorandum, after boycotting last week's
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It was announced on Tuesday that sixteen people including ten soldiers have been charged with the attempted assassination of Guinean President Alpha Conde at his home in Conakry, two weeks ago.
Ten of the accused appeared in court on Monday in a suburb of Conakry, where they were charged and remanded in custody reported an anonymous
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Sixteen people, including 10 soldiers, have been charged with attempted assassination for an attack on Guinean President Alpha Conde's home two weeks ago, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Ten of the accused appeared in court on Monday in a suburb of Conakry, where they were charged and remanded in custody, the source, who spoke on condition
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Conakry - Guinea's National Council on Communication (CNC) has lifted a media ban on reports concerning a rocket attack on the residence of President Alpha Conde in Conakry, the body's chief said.
"I ordered the lifting of the ban which affected all media, private and public, regarding the attack on the residence of the head of
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Guinean authorities and international organisations on Friday launched a drive to vaccinate 1.25 million children against polio as the dreaded childhood disease resurges in parts of Africa.
The campaign began in Mandiana in the east of the country near the Ivory Coast border, where a case of polio was recorded in May, according to a joint
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