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President-elect Alpha Conde would be sworn in the capital Conakry after sweeping 52 percent of the votes over former Prime Minister Cellou Diallo in the November runoff election.
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SABMiller is topping the FTSE 100 risers as the world’s second biggest brewer beat forecasts with its half year figures.
Lager volumes rose 1% with particular...
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Guinean authorities deployed army and police forces across the country as the U.S. urged political leaders to calm their supporters amid violence sparked by the...
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Across Africa hundreds of thousands of people each year are left homeless when they
are forcibly evicted from their homes by the authorities. In most cases evictions...
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Sporadic violence hit Guinea’s capital and several regions on Tuesday after opposition leader Alpha Conde was declared winner in a hotly contested presidential...
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Opposition leader Alpha Conde has won the presidential run-off in Guinea, the electoral commission has said.
Mr Conde gained 52.5% of votes in the 7 November poll...
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A critical presidential runoff election in Guinea will be postponed by at least two weeks, the country’s electoral commission said Thursday.
“There will be...
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Electoral campaigning was suspended and demonstrations have been banned by Guinea’s interim government after one person died and 50 were hurt in violent...
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The head of Guinea’s election commission has died, amid speculation that Sunday’s presidential run-off could be postponed.
Last week election chief Ben...
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Two senior voting officials have been charged with vote tampering and sentenced to one year in prison a week before Guinea’s crucial presidential vote, in a court...
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Polling wound down peacefully in Guinea on Sunday in a landmark election offering voters their first chance to freely choose a leader since the coup-prone West African...
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Equatorial Guinea has agreed to supply Ghana with 2 million barrels of crude oil per year in a deal meant to help Ghana’s debt-ridden refinery continue operating,...
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Guinea urgently needs funds to be ready for an election due later this year, the prime minister has told the BBC.
“We need to have money... [but] we will try to...
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The killing of opposition supporters in Guinea last year was a crime against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said.
The deputy prosecutor of the...
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Guinea’s military leaders appointed a veteran opposition figure as prime minister on Monday, a critical step in the transition to elections and civilian government...
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France’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation’s wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco,...
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United Nations investigators believe Guinea’s wounded junta leader was directly responsible for the mass killings and rapes of protesters in September, which they...
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An assassination bid aimed at the first Guinean leader from the minority Guerze tribe has raised concerns that ethnic and regional divisions in the country could...
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The fate of Guinea hangs in the balance following the shooting of the country’s military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. There are fears that the fractured...
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A military aide has tried to assassinate Guinea’s ruler, a government official said, wounding the leader who seized power in a coup nearly a year ago and has come...
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At the national stadium in the Guinean capital, Conakry, it’s oddly quiet — the only sounds that can be heard are the muffled beats of a drum band practicing...
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A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking.
Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing...
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I have interviewed women and even child survivors of sexual violence before, mostly during civil wars in conflict zones. Naturally, my heart went out to them.
But when...
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Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who...
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Guinea’s leader, who seized power in a coup nine months ago, said Friday that elections will continue as planned even as his military junta prepared to bury 57...
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Guinea’s government said Tuesday it would investigate why troops opened fire on protesters at a pro-democracy rally. A human rights group said 157 people were...
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At least 58 people were killed when Guinean security forces fired into the crowd at an opposition rally at a football stadium yesterday, according to a human rights...
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The African Union on Friday announced it would impose sanctions on Guinea\’s junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, over his intention to run in upcoming...
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One of my colleagues yesterday consulted me over an email he received recently from a lady who allegedly says she is in Canada. Both have been communicating for a while...
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With the protests getting out of control and the head of state in declining health after 21 years at the helm, Guinea stands on the brink of explosion. Guinea’s...
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In this undated photo released from the Conservation International, a frog, Litoria sp., believed to be new to science, and which uses a loud ringing song to call for a mate, that was discovered in a rainforest in Papua New Guinea’’s highlands...
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