Guinea News
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Guinean opposition leaders on Monday announced a national protest campaign beginning May 10, to demand talks with President Alpha Conde's government on the holding of delayed legislative elections. "We have decided to express our frustration through marches and other demonstrations," said Cellou Dalein Diallo, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea. He was speaking at a press conference
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Guinean President Alpha Conde announced the indefinite postponement of parliamentary elections that were scheduled for July 8 after previous delays, citing "technical problems". "I do not convene the electorate for July 8... because I'm not sure that everything is normal, that all technical problems are resolved," the president said in a declaration on state media, on Friday. "We had presidential
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In recent weeks, Guinea's President Alpha Conde and the opposition have failed to resolve differences over the conduct of the legislative elections set for July 8. Opposition groups have repeatedly maintained that elections must be preceded by the reconstitution of the electoral commission, to allow for greater opposition representation, and an audit and update of the voters' register. The government,
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Officials from the China Development Bank (CDB) are offering to finance a substantial part of the Conakry government's US$8.6 billion overhaul of mining and industrial infratructure, according to a source close to negotiations. Chinese mining companies are looking at Guinea's world-class reserves of iron ore and bauxite, and many of the proposed road, rail and electric power projects would be
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Police arrested dozens of people in Guinea's capital Saturday and sealed off access to a stadium where opposition groups planned to rally in a call for clean elections in July. An AFP reporter saw riot police with vehicles preventing any access to the stadium in the Matam district of Conakry, while the local mayor denied opposition claims that the meeting
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Young people in Guinea will receive skills training that will help them find jobs under a new project set up today by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and funded by the Government of Japan. Some 4,000 young people and 50 entrepreneurial groups in Forest Guinea (Yomou, Lola, Gouecke, Beyla, Gueckedou), Upper Guinea (Siguiri, Kouroussa, Mandiana, and Kankan), and
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Conakry - A cholera outbreak in western Guinea has killed at least 14 people over the past month, a source at the health and public hygiene ministry said on Monday. "The cholera epidemic that has reappeared a month ago concerns coastal communities of Forecariah and Boffa... and a medical team sent to the scene has recorded 14 deaths," out of
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Conakry - Legislative elections in Guinea, delayed for months due to disputes between the ruling party and the opposition, will now take place on July 8, the electoral commission announced on Thursday. Louceni Camara, head of the national independent electoral commission (CENI), said the body would audit and revise the electoral lists which would be published in May. Guinea was
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Conakry - A Guinean court has filed charges against a top army officer over the killing of scores of protesters and mass rape of women during a 2009 demonstration against military rule, rights groups said. Colonel Moussa Tiegboro Camara, secretary of state in charge of fighting organised crime, is the highest-level official yet to be charged over the massacre, one
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Guinea has indefinitely postponed legislative elections initially set for December 29 to meet opposition demands for a role in planning the polls to prevent fraud, officials said. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) has also suspended its activity for two weeks, as demanded by the opposition, CENI said in a statement issued late Sunday. CENI took the decision after meeting
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Employees of the largest bauxite company in Guinea, the world's top exporter of the mineral, have suspended their open-ended strike to obtain pay raises, union leaders said Saturday. "We have decided to suspend our strike action after mediation by Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana, who has promised to get involved to ensure that the workers prevail," said Seku Omar Ly,
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Conakry — Politics remain ethnically divisive in Guinea a year after violent clashes marred a bitterly divided Presidential election. Analysts and civil servants say more concerted reconciliation efforts between ethnic groups are needed on the part of the President and opposition leaders to avoid another pitched battle in upcoming legislative elections. Voting was originally scheduled for the end of 2011,
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara arrived in Conakry on Thursday for a one day visit in which he and his Guinean counterpart Alpha Conde will discuss reconciliation efforts in their troubled countries. The neighbouring west African nations "both held presidential elections at the end of 2010 under high socio-political tension", the Guinean presidency said in a statement. Reconciliation efforts launched
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Conakry - Guinean President Alpha Conde has announced the retirement of over 4 000 soldiers and paramilitary officers, many of whom are long past the legal age at which they should have stepped down. "This year more than 4 000 soldiers and paramilitary officers will retire before December," Conde said in a statement on national radio and television stations on
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Conakry - A large truck ploughed into cars and pedestrians in a populous suburb of Guinea's capital Conakry late on Friday, killing at least 20 people, national television reported. "Some 20 people were killed and many others injured in an accident in Dabondy," the broadcaster reported. Television showed images of dead and mutilated bodies, which overwhelmed rescue workers attempting to
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The price of fuel increased by 27 percent at the pumps in Guinea on Monday, bringing the price of petrol to 9,500 Guinean francs (one euro, $1,37) a litre, double the price 10 months ago. Government announced the increase in the price of diesel and petrol from 7,500 to 9,500 francs on Sunday. In December, fuel cost 4,500 francs before
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Guinea football legend and Sports minister Titi Camara expects the Syli Nationale to come out of Abuja with a victory when both sides face off on October 8 to decide for a ticket at next year’s Afcon.
Guinea top the group with three points ahead of Nigeria and need just a draw to progress or loss
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The Guinean government on Thursday asked to meet with opposition parties after clashes between protesters and security forces earlier this week left two dead and about 40 injured.
Police arrested more than 300 people when opposition supporters, calling for electoral reform and defying a government ban on rallies, confronted large numbers of officers throughout the capital
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Rights groups denounced Guinea's government as police fanned out across the capital following deadly clashes that overshadowed what had been intended as a day of national reconciliation.
Police raided opposition strongholds in the capital Conakry on Wednesday, arresting dozens, witnesses said.
The crackdown came a day after clashes between protesters and security forces
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Guinean police fanned out across the capital on Wednesday as deadly unrest overshadowed a "day of national reconciliation" and rights groups warned the government was repeating the mistakes of its autocratic predecessors.
Police descended into opposition strongholds in the capital Conakry, arresting dozens, witnesses said, a day after clashes between protesters and security forces left two
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Opposition supporters attempting to join a march were violently dispersed on Tuesday, and at least four people were killed when paramilitary police seized control of traffic circles and lobbed tear gas at people walking toward the meeting point, an official said.
Opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who lost last year's election to
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Opposition supporters attempting to join a march that had been pre-authorized by the government Tuesday found themselves unable to leave their neighborhoods, as paramilitary police seized control of traffic circles and lobbed tear gas at people walking toward the meeting point.
Even though witnesses say police opened fire with live bullets in at least one neighborhood,
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Guinean police on Tuesday prevented an opposition rally in the capital, amid growing concern that the historic gains made in last year's polls could be reversed in upcoming December elections.
Dozens of vehicles of the police and paramilitary forces prevented access to the September 28 stadium, where the rally was planned, and blocked off access roads
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The historic gains Guinea made in holding widely-applauded elections last year could be reversed if the West African nation's upcoming vote is mishandled, a democracy watchdog said Sunday.
Alpha Conde's November 2010 election, in a flawed but credible vote, gave Guinea "an extraordinary opportunity to end 50 years of authoritarianism and economic stagnation," the International Crisis
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Guinean President Alpha Conde said Sunday that a failed assassination attempt on him in July was plotted in the Senegalese capital Dakar, with the complicity of Senegal and Gambia.
In an interview with the private Senegalese radio station Sud FM, Conde named three people who he said had met in Dakar's Meridien President Hotel to plan
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