Conakry :: Guinea
| updated Sun Dec 06 11:08:28 -0800 2009
| travel-news
Camara, who seized power in a coup in December 2008 soon after the death of long-time ruler Lansana Conte, was shot by an aide-de-camp on Thursday. In a statement on Sunday, the chief doctor at Morocco's main military hospital, where...
Conakry :: Guinea
| updated Sun Dec 06 07:41:47 -0800 2009
| travel-news
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. Pickup trucks carrying heavily armed soldiers moved through the quiet streets...
Commando units loyal to the wounded leader of Guinea's military junta swept through neighbourhoods near the capital on Monday, arresting civilians believed to have ties with the renegade soldier that tried to assassinate their leader. The arrests came as the...
Guinea— Guinea's military junta has suspended negotiations with the opposition on the country's political crisis until the return of its wounded leader, a junta spokesman said Wednesday. Minister of Communications Idrissa Cherif said that the talks meant to find a...
The incident was confirmed by a diplomat who had been briefed on the matter and a person close to the French embassy. The two said that the ambassador and his wife had gone to the airport Monday, when soldiers surrounded...
Conakry :: Guinea
| updated Sat Dec 05 04:48:14 -0800 2009
| political-news
Mark Doyle found tensions were still high on a recent visit to Guinea. An old man sits in front of a small shop on one of the busy streets of the capital Conakry. Normally, he would have been just another...
Forécariah :: Guinea
| updated Sat Dec 05 11:48:23 -0800 2009
| travel-news
Up a dirt road inside the thick forest here, many fear the seeds of Africa's next civil war are being sown. Beyond two heavily guarded checkpoints is a sprawling camp, where white contractors are giving military training to an estimated...
Guinea’s military junta chief is in a “difficult” condition after an assassination attempt and a return to Guinea is not imminent, a junior French minister who works on relations with African countries said today. Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was shot...
Exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera reveals brutal treatment of military personel linked to a failed assassination attempt. Troops who took part in, or witnessed, the failed shooting of de facto president Captain Moussa Dadis Camara are being hunted down, and, in some cases...
Egypt said on Thursday that it will not abolish the death penalty because it is a deterrent, even though human rights groups say that fair trials are not guaranteed. "Egypt will not abolish the death penalty...Egyptian legislation allows for the...
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