This follows the ‘jailbreak’ of dictator Moussa Dadis Camara who said he was ‘kidnapped’
Since the coup d’état, Guinea’s head of state has been in the custody of the military officers. But it was the president who was the primary architect of his own downfall
Citizens have for a year protested against the president seeking a third term in office despite a two-term limit. Many have been killed — and 90 more people died in this week’s crackdown
Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines
Rights group criticised the ruling, saying “no one should be detained for having organised or called for a peaceful demonstration”.
Even as Algeria and Sudan have rid themselves of their long-standing leaders, Guinea may be about to create a new president-for-life
Activists have erected barricades in several neighbourhoods in the capital, Conakry
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/ 3 December 2010
Guinea’s Supreme Court confirmed early on Friday the election victory of opposition leader Alpha Conde who won with 52,52% of votes.
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/ 15 November 2010
Security forces in Guinea clashed with youths in Conakry on Monday as tensions mounted before the deadline for the announcement of poll results.
Guinea deployed extra security forces to parts of Conakry on Monday after a weekend of looting and rioting fuelled by a delay to its run-off election.
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 October 2010
Supporters of Guinean presidential candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo fought with police in the suburbs of the capital on Monday.
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/ 16 September 2010
Guinea on Wednesday postponed a presidential election run-off due in four days, casting doubt on the country’s bid to return to civilian rule.
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/ 13 September 2010
The two rivals battling to become Guinea’s president scheduled talks on Monday to calm tensions after deadly clashes between their supporters.
Four million Guineans vote on Sunday in the first democratic election in the West African nation.
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/ 23 October 2009
At least a dozen people have been murdered in Guinea over the past month in suspected revenge attacks after a government crackdown on protesters.
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/ 22 October 2009
Guinea Prime Minister Kabine Komara has pledged to back a UN-led inquiry into a bloody crackdown on an opposition rally by security forces.
Guinea’s ruling junta has appointed an independent commission to investigate a deadly crackdown on opposition protestors.
Women caught up in a massacre of opposition protesters in Guinea alleged on Monday they had been raped by soldiers behind the bloodbath.
The Guinean army that turned a peaceful demonstration into a bloodbath is powerful and difficult to reform while it holds power, analysts say.
Guinea’s military ruler has asked for a UN-backed probe after junta forces massacred more than 150 people.
Guinea’s military rulers have detained at least two former senior commanders in a purge of the armed forces that reveals tensions following last month’s coup in the West African bauxite exporter, officers said. Those detained by soldiers under orders from the ruling junta, which seized power on December 23, include the former armed forces chief […]
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/ 21 September 2007
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday embarked on his first foreign trip since taking office this week, heading to neighbouring Guinea and Liberia to promote ties damaged by more than a decade of war. The former insurance executive was sworn in on Monday within hours of being declared winner of a run-off election.
Guinea will start talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency on a nuclear energy programme after the discovery of uranium this month, becoming the latest African state seeking a nuclear solution to power shortages. The poor West African nation announced at the start of August that Australian miner Murchison United had discovered commercially viable deposits of uranium.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi on Monday condemned the working of the African Union and called for the creation of a ”United States of Africa” at the forthcoming AU summit in Ghana. ”The OAU [Organisation of African Unity, predecessor of the AU] failed, the council of African ministers failed, the African Parliament is a rump Parliament,” he said.
Guinean soldiers rioting over unpaid wages shot dead two people and wounded dozens of others as they rampaged through several cities and towns, witnesses said on Friday. A soldier and a civilian night watchman were killed while 73 people, most of them civilians, were wounded in two days of violent protest.
A Guinean military fighter plane crashed on Monday into a suburb of the capital of the West African country, government and witnesses said. ”A MiG came down around 11.30am [GMT] on an RTG [Guinea Radio and Television] building,” Communication Minister Justin Morel Junior said.
A bridge collapsed under an overloaded truck in Guinea, throwing scores of passengers into a river and killing at least 70, the West African country’s state radio reported on Wednesday. The truck was ferrying merchandise and people back from a local market near the south-eastern town of Gueckedou when the accident occurred.
Sixty-five people were killed and seven injured in the West African state of Guinea after the lorry in which they were travelling toppled into a lake. Officials said the accident late on Monday near the town of Gueckedou, about 700km south-east of the capital, was one of the deadliest in decades. The van toppled into the water when it tried to cross a narrow bridge, according to survivors.
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/ 26 February 2007
Businesses, government offices and schools remained closed in towns across Guinea on Monday as people attended memorial services for at least 113 victims of a crackdown on political protests. The shutdown defied a military directive that people in the West African country go back to work at once after a crippling general strike.
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/ 25 February 2007
Guinea’s military ordered the country to go back to work as it removed barricades from the streets on Sunday following the lifting of martial law. Guinea’s usually obedient Parliament dealt a blow to the president when it voted unanimously on Friday to end the state of siege he had slapped on the West African country.
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/ 21 February 2007
With the country under martial law and in the grip of a general strike, Guinea’s union leaders held new talks on Wednesday with President Lansana Conte’s government on how to end weeks of unrest that have left scores dead. At least 113 people have been killed since the protests started in January.