Full Coverage: Guinea

24.01.2008 Many of the frustrations that led Guineans to the streets in violent protest a year ago remain unchanged, and threaten to break the hard-won peace in this fragile country, agencies report.

19.02.2007 President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed former President Ibrahim Babangida as special envoy at the head of a peace mission to Guinea in an attempt to stem continuing violence there.
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14.02.2007 Riots sparked by discontent over the government have prompted autocratic President Lansana Conte to declare martial law in Guinea, keeping the country's Red Cross from tending to the hundreds wounded in the previous days clashes.

28.01.2007 Celebrating Guineans took to the streets of Conakry on Saturday night after the ending of an 18-day nationwide general strike that paralysed business and administrative activities.

19.01.2007 An international trades union organisation has condemned the killing of at least three people and the wounding and arrest of many others when Guinea's security forces opened fire on a peaceful demonstration in support of a general strike.

16.01.2007 After a day of clashes between security forces and protestors in Conakry, union leaders yesterday evening presented Guinean President Lansana Conte with an ultimatum to either reform his government or face mass nationwide demonstrations.

06.12.2006 There is growing momentum against the traditional but harmful practice of female genital cutting in Africa, said an organization that helped about 150 communities to publicly abandon the practice in Guinea.

13.06.2006 Serious violations of trade union rights are occurring in Guinea, including death threats against union leaders, warn international union groupings.

19.04.2006 After a chase of over 1,000 miles, a six-day occupation and hours of diplomatic negotiations, Spain has finally agreed to declare the cargo from the "Binar 4'" - 200 tonnes of fish from West Africa - illegal. Guinean officials also announced they would be fining the owners and operators of the vessel.

13.04.2006 Activists have climbed on board what they claim is "an illegal cargo vessel full of fish stolen from Guinean waters" and painted the words "Stolen Fish" on both sides of its hull.

07.09.2005 The small West African Republic of Guinea has taken an important step towards guaranteeing press freedom by opening the airwaves to private broadcasters.

11.05.2005 A girls’ soccer tournament in Upper Guinea last month capitalized on the local soccer craze to spread messages about preventing HIV/AIDS, STDs, and unwanted pregnancy. The program proved so successful that the Ministry of Health will soon replicate it among young adults in other parts of the country.

22.07.2004 Angry Sierra Leoneans are demanding that their government ask Guinea to withdraw its troops from their territory which they occupied five years ago. Troops from Guinea occupied the eastern border town of Yenga during Sierra Leone's civil war between the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and government forces.

24.03.2004 The first refugees to take part in a government refugee resettlement scheme have arrived in the UK. The programme will be run on a quota basis, initially set at 500 people a year. The first group of refugees to arrive in the UK escaped war in Liberia and have been living in refugee camps for up to ten years in Sierra Leone and Guinea.

14.07.2003 Life was difficult enough for the 50 children--most under the age of 12--living at the Golden Rule orphanage in northern Liberia. Then the war came.

08.04.2003 The return home of a convoy of Sierra Leonean refugees from Guinea has raised hopes that repatriation of tens of thousands of refugees could be completed by the end of next year.

13.03.2003 The voting intentions of Cameroon, Guinea and Angola are under the spotlight in the tense stand-off in the UN Security Council over use of force against Iraq. The 15-member Council is split, with France leading a strong opposition to war that includes two other permanent council members - Russia and China, as well as non-members Germany and Syria.

26.02.2003 The administration of United States President George W. Bush is aiming special lobby efforts at three African nations on the United Nations Security Council for support in any decision on impending war with Iraq.

26.02.2003 Liberia has filed a nine-count complaint at the United Nations Security Council against neighbouring Guinea for supporting a "terrorist organisation" which it accuses of trying to destabilise it.

26.02.2003 The administration of United States President George W. Bush is aiming special lobby efforts at three African nations on the United Nations Security Council for support in any decision on impending war with Iraq.