Spain’s justice minister is the latest high-profile personality to be embarrassed by leaked recordings of a past conversation with the "blackmailer"
Two days short of the planned presidential election in Guinea, people were still waiting to know whether the poll will go ahead on Sunday.
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/ 19 November 2009
The look on Mame Couma Tandjigora’s face tells the story. She scowls, as many in her country might when asked about locally grown rice.
Women caught up in a massacre of opposition protesters in Guinea alleged on Monday they had been raped by soldiers behind the bloodbath.
Guinea’s military ruler has asked for a UN-backed probe after junta forces massacred more than 150 people.
Seventeen people including many children died and about 30 were injured early on Friday when a blaze ripped through a dilapidated apartment building in Paris occupied by African families. The origin of one of the worst blazes in post-war Paris was not known, but a criminal investigation is under way. The fire was a reminder of a blaze on April 15 this year in the central Opera district in which 24 people, also immigrants, perished in a hotel.