The Archipelago of the Bijagós is such a place, a spattering of 88 palm-fringed-islands in the Atlantic Ocean, only 23 of them inhabited, off the coast of one of West Africa’s most dysfunctional yet beguiling states, Guinea-Bissau. To just say...
You just cannot shake them off, even when you think perhaps you have...I did not witness the shooting of pro-democracy protesters or the public rape and sexual violence of women in and around the stadium...Rape is surely horrific, but becomes...
Guinea — A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in this West African nation to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight.
The three members of a United Nations commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed arrived on Wednesday to pursue their investigation. Its Algerian chairperson, Mohamed Bedjaoui, Francoise Kayiramirwa from Burundi and...
Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history...
The BBC's Mpho Lakaje in Johannesburg says the announcement appears to give substance to the allegations. There have been reports in the French media of South Africans training recruits at a camp south of Conakry. The junta has been fiercely...
Guinea's military junta has imported millions of dollars worth of weapons in recent weeks -- allegedly with the help of South African mercenaries -- despite international sanctions imposed on the country after the presidential guard massacred 160 people at an...
Merouane Zemmama has pulled out of international duty with Morocco after missing Saturday's Edinburgh derby but defender Sol Bamba has been given permission to join up with Ivory Coast, despite injury. Zemmama has a groin strain and has not travelled...
He is looking sharp and he knows his job and his responsibility to the team,” Muhiddin said on Thursday. The 20-year-old Ouma trained for the first time with the team yesterday morning after arriving from his base in Portugal where...
Conakry :: Guinea
| updated Sun Nov 29 19:42:06 -0800 2009
| political-news
Embassy, says her husband was arrested by Guinea's ruling junta. Guinea — The wife of Mouctar Diallo, a former employee of the U.S. Embassy, says her husband was arrested by Guinea's ruling junta. Djenabou Diallo says her husband was arrested...
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