News Source: Macleans
| about 1 month ago
Guinea's independence celebrations were sombre Friday as the government prepared to bury 57 people killed when troops fired live ammunition at a pro-democracy rally. Before the burials, religious leaders will pray over the bodies at the capital's...
News Source: News 24
| about 1 month ago
Brutal, indisciplined and divided, the Guinean army that turned a peaceful demonstration into a bloodbath on Monday is still powerful and difficult to reform while it holds power, analysts say. Since the massacre, one of the worst in Guinea in a...
News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 month ago
There was relief in many quarters last December when he stepped into the vacuum left by the death of long-term dictator Lansana Conté, promising to champion the poor in the volatile west African state. But African officials, western countries –...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The military junta on Thursday opened the morgue of one of Conakry's main hospitals to journalists and asserted that 56 people died in Monday's brutal repression in the capital's biggest stadium. Environment Minister Papa Koly Kourouma said at the...
News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 month ago
Cellou Dalein Diallo, a former prime minister who was among the opposition chiefs beaten by security forces this week, left on an aircraft sent by the president of nearby Senegal, a western diplomat told the Financial Times. News agencies reported...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, the country’s leader, called on Monday for a government of national unity after local human rights groups said a crackdown on an opposition rally had killed at least 157 people. The move was seen as an attempt to ease...