Guinea

Guinea opposition leaders jailed

Africa Mouctar Bah & Afp - 25 Oct 2019

Rights group criticised the ruling, saying “no one should be detained for having organised or called for a peaceful demonstration”.

Somaliland gets the red carpet

Africa Simon Allison - 12 Jul 2019

The self-governing territory’s president received a head of state’s welcome in Guinea, much to Somalia’s fury

Ebola fear empties DRC village schools

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 5 Sep 2018

Teaching staff and aid workers fear that children who walk around freely in the village pose a risk far worse than they would pose in a classroom

Guinea pleads for calm after 7 people die in post-election violence

Africa Mouctar Bah - 9 Feb 2018

Activists have erected barricades in several neighbourhoods in the capital, Conakry

New Ebola case in DRC

Africa Simon Allison - 12 May 2017

There is, however, good reason to believe that the country can prevent an outbreak, given its recent history of dealing with Ebola outbreaks.

Liberia says latest Ebola fatality travelled to Guinea

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Apr 2016

A woman who died of Ebola in Liberia is thought to have contracted the disease in Guinea.

Ebola clinic reopens in Guinea after virus resurfaces

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Mar 2016

The WHO has dispatched an expert team to southern Guinea after new cases of Ebola surfaced there.

Guinea declared Ebola free

Africa Saliou Samb - 29 Dec 2015

The declaration by authorities was met with mixed emotions, the memory of the virus that has left more than 2 500 people dead still too fresh.

Chinese workers brave Ebola and win friends

Article bogdan TagDiv - 1 Oct 2015

As workers fled the outbreak in West Africa, China International Water and Electric employees stayed put to finish the Kaleta dam in Guinea.

‘Marshall plan’ needed to rescue Ebola-ravaged countries

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 26 Feb 2015

Oxfam has called for a multimillion-dollar plan to rebuild the economies of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, ahead of a recovery summit in Brussels.

SA politicians and spies named in Guinea ‘mines-for-votes’ rumpus

Article Craig Mckune - 5 Feb 2015

A London court is hearing lurid claims of bribery involving the West African country’s 2010 poll.

Ebola flight risk fears ungrounded

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Oct 2014

There is little reason to worry even if a fellow passenger has contracted the disease.

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