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Guinea ALERT: Two national radio journalists unfairly suspended

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Ibrahima Sadio Bah and Amadou Diouldé Diallo, two senior sports journalists of the state-owned Radio Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) were on February 10,...

GUINEA: Record cold snap destroys crops, kills hundreds of animals

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Near-freezing temperatures in north-central Guinea in January destroyed crops and livestock on which thousands of people depend for food as well as...

ECOWAS to sanction Guinea

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/06/content_10608990.htm

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Guinea stands to be sanctioned on Friday when an extra-ordinary session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to convene in...

Guinea junta pledges 2009 polls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7811152.stm

Monday, January 05, 2009

Guinea's military ruler has promised to hold elections in 2009 - a year earlier than previously announced. "Captain Camara was very clear...in...

French official visits Guinea to discuss elections

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE5010CQ20090102

Friday, January 02, 2009

A French official will travel to Guinea on Saturday to meet the ruling military junta and the civilian prime minister to discuss the organisation of...

Guinea junta names banker as PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7804306.stm

Friday, January 02, 2009

Guinea's military rulers have named a banker as their prime minister, a week after their coup. Kabine Komara had been an executive at the African...

Coup-hit Guinea burying ex-leader

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7800163.stm

Friday, December 26, 2008

Funeral ceremonies have been taking place in Guinea for former President Lansana Conte, whose death this week triggered a military coup.Thousands...

Coup fear as Guinea president dies

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/23/guinea.president.dead/index.html

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The West African country of Guinea, reeling after the death of President Lansana Conte, is staring at the prospect of widespread political...

Military takes control in Guinea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7796902.stm

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Guinea's army has announced that it has dissolved the country's government and suspended the constitution, hours after the death of President Lansana...

GUINEA: Mining zones take on AIDS

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81724

Friday, November 28, 2008

CONAKRY Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - With an HIV infection rate of 5.2 per cent, the lucrative mining sector in Guinea is particularly at risk...

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