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Guinea ALERT: Two national rad...

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 destr...

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 6, 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 5, 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 2, 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 2, 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...