Guinea News

OUAGADOUGOU, 18 July 2008 - The World Food Programme fears up to 75 percent of Burkina Faso's city dwellers may be unable to access adequate food stocks as they struggle to cope with the combined impacts of a ...

Nigerians have been urged to embrace family planning met hods as a way of spacing their children and reducing poverty in line with the Mi l lennium Development Goals , PANA reports from here Friday.

President Mwai Kibaki at State House, Nairobi, Wednesday received credentials from seven new envoys representing their Countries in Kenya.

The recent declarations of Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi of Libya, talking of a "plot" aimed at sabotaging the African federal government pr o ject, "are legitimate and well-founded," a Guinean academic, Raymond ...

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Iran - Guinea - Mineral Iranian and Guinean Conakry officials inked industrial and mineral cooperation agreements on Thursday.

As the International Crisis Group questions the willingness of the Guinean government to hold elections in 2008 as planned, donors and opposition party members say it is not just political will but practical ...

The election commission is registering people to vote in towns throughout Guinea but analysts fear elections will not take place in 2008 as planned.

Dakar/Brussels, 24 June 2008: Unless all civil society actors, heads of political parties and religious leaders unite in their quest for real change, the Cont © dictatorship will be restored in Guinea.

AFRICA has the notoriety of bearing some of the worst rulers in the world. Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe has been President since 1980, is not exceptional.

Food price hikes have hit Guinea's capital Conakry harder than many others in West Africa according to the World Food Programme , while an export ban is preventing rural populations from benefiting from high ...

To access this briefing in French ,A please click here . OVERVIEW The political and economic change Guineans demanded in 2007 at the cost of nearly 200 lives is in jeopardy.

When Jason A. Leckerman was assigned a pro bono asylum case involving a deaf Guinean refugee, the young attorney had no idea what he was in for.

Trendsetter Production Company, a subsidiary of Hyperdynamics Corporation , and its operating partner, Rabb Resources LTD, announced today that they have acquired a new 318 acre lease from Harrison Properties ...

CONAKRY, 20 June 2008 - Guinean Prime Minister Soar ©, who announced his new cabinet on 19 June, has appeased widespread fears that the new government would feature old ministers chased out of power amid ...

Military chiefs were holding emergency meetings Thursday in Guinea to resolve grievances with striking police and other security officers, officials said.

It's a good thing Dan Christensen doesn't mind distances. Otherwise he probably wouldn't commute the thousands of miles between Ketchikan and the West Africa nation of Guinea every few months.

Elite troops in Guinea stormed a police base overnight in a bloody shoot-out with members of an anti-riot brigade to put down a two-day police mutiny over pay, officers and witnesses said.

Police in Guinea went on strike Monday, firing gunshots repeatedly into the air, taking the West African nation's police chief hostage and blocking the country's main port.

Commentary on the news, culture, sports and current events of sub-Saharan Africa from someone who's lived there.