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/ 19 October 2009
Guinea’s isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a UN inquiry into a massacre of opposition demonstrators last month.
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/ 16 October 2009
Two Cabinet ministers in Guinea resigned in the aftermath of a bloody rally last month where soldiers fired on pro-democracy demonstrators.
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/ 16 October 2009
Guinea’s ruling military junta, facing rising international pressure, has lifted its ban on public demonstrations.
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/ 15 October 2009
The prosecutor of the ICC said on Thursday he was investigating last month’s deadly crackdown on Captain Moussa Dadis Camara.
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/ 13 October 2009
Nigeria’s president on Tuesday called for a summit of heads of state of Ecowas to find a solution for the political crises in Guinea and Niger.
Amnesty International on Thursday urged all countries to halt arms supplies to Guinea following the September 28 massacre of opposition protesters.
A dispute broke out at the head of Guinea’s military government late on Wednesday after a junta leader sought to arrest a military officer.
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.
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/ 30 September 2009
International action may be needed to prevent the tensions behind Guinea’s crackdown on anti-government protests from igniting regional instability.
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/ 30 September 2009
Guinea on Wednesday banned "subversive" gatherings as it announced two days of national mourning after troops killed at least 157 people.
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/ 29 September 2009
International condemnation mounted on Tuesday after security forces in Guinea shot dead at least 87 protesters.
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/ 28 September 2009
Guinea’s forces fired live ammunition into the air on Monday as hundreds of opposition supporters gathered in the country’s capital, witnesses said.
Guinea’s new military junta must rein in soldiers who have carried out armed robbery, extortion and rape, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
The EU on Monday proposed talks with the ruling junta in Guinea, hoping to encourage the introduction of the rule of law.
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/ 31 December 2008
Coup leaders in Guinea named a civilian banker as prime minister, making good on a key promise a week after seizing power.
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/ 27 December 2008
Guinea’s new military junta was to hold meetings with Guineans and members of the diplomatic community Saturday in a bid to woo public and
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/ 26 December 2008
Former president Lansana Conte was to be buried on Friday as Guinea adjusted to the rule of the military junta that has seized control.
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/ 23 December 2008
Mutinous Guinean soldiers launched a coup attempt on Tuesday hours after the death was announced of long-serving President Lansana Conte.
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/ 23 December 2008
Guinea’s President Lansana Conte, who ruled the West African nation with an iron fist for 24 years, has died after a reign marked by repression.
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/ 23 December 2008
Guinea’s long-ruling dictator, Lansana Conte, died after a lengthy illness, the head of the National Assembly announced early on Tuesday.
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/ 22 October 2008
Guinea’s opposition leaders have slammed the electoral commission’s decision to postpone the country’s first free elections since independence.
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/ 9 September 2008
Guinea, the world’s top bauxite exporter, will speed up a mining-contracts review, the country’s finance minister says.
Planned elections likely to be postponed by a prime minister installed without consultation, a move likely to compromise economic revival.
Guinea’s capital was calm on Wednesday as soldiers secured the streets after breaking up a strike by disgruntled police that left at least four dead.
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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.