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With Guinea's junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara lying wounded in a Moroccan hospital after a gun attack by his own soldiers, Defense Minister Sekouba Konate appeared to hold sway in the capital Conakry on Saturday.

Guinea's capital was on edge on Saturday following a botched assassination attempt on the head of the ruling junta, with residents bracing for further violence between out-of-control army factions.

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Guinea's military leader has been fired on by one of his aides in the capital, Conakry, a government spokesman says.

Pascal Guyot / AFP / Getty 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 nearby.

The cries of the victims of a massacre of opposition demonstrators in Guinea have hardly been heard outside the West African country.

'The two sides have started talks, but they are ready to play the ethnic card if negotiations fail,' say Fides sources from the Church in Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea where tensions remain high between the military junta led by Moussa Camara Dadis and the opposition, grouped under the name of "Live Forces". This week, talks began ...

A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking.

The junta seized power on the death of their father in December last year, pledging to smash crime rings using Guinea as a hub for drug trafficking toEurope.

By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor The South African government is investigating reports that about 50 South African mercenaries are working for the military junta which seized power in Guinea late last year.

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore has chaired the first day of mediation talks in Ouagadougou between Guinea's military junta and other political groups.

NAIROBI // They started out as peaceful political protests. They turned into bloody riots that drew international scorn.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched an international inquiry headed by an Algerian diplomat to look into a bloody crackdown on protesters in Guinea last month, the United Nations said on Friday.

A proposed international probe into last month's deadly crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea has received the green light from local and regional stakeholders, with the army captain who seized power in a coup d'etat pledging full cooperation, a senior United Nations official reported today.

Guinea's military government has promised to cooperate with a UN inquiry into a bloody crackdown against protesters in the West African country last month, a senior UN official said today.

Amid widespread international condemnation of Guinea's military regime, the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a formal investigation into the September 28th massacre of opposition protestors in Conakry.

Freedom of Speech , Human Rights , Media , Protest , Politics Languages: French Full Category List Excerpt Amid widespread international condemnation of Guinea's military regime, the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a formal investigation into the September 28th massacre of opposition protestors in Conakry.

The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it has launched a preliminary investigation into violence that erupted last month at a sports stadium in the west African nation of Guinea.

'We have no confirmation that among those who were suppressed in the protest on September 28 were former Liberian rebels of Ulimo and the NPFL,' Agenzia Fides was told by sources from the Church in Guinea.

While the rest of the world recoiled in horror at recent events in Guinea, where at least 150 pro-democracy supporters were killed and dozens of women publicly raped by government soldiers, China has sensed an opportunity to steal another march on Western competitors in Africa.