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Guinea unions threaten military junta with strike
Conakry :: Guinea | about 24 hours ago
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Reuters on Wednesday. "Failure to meet these demands obliges the central trade unions of Guinea to use all legal means to attain the legitimate aspirations of the workers ..." the document said, giving a deadline of the end of December. (AP)
Tags: Guinean, military junta, Breaking News Guinea, Guinea, Conakry, Economic Community of West African States, Politics, Labor, Military dictatorship
New plan for Guinea wanted
Ouagadougou :: Burkina Faso | about 1 month ago
Credibility Burkina Faso's president, mediating in Guinea after a massacre in September, on Tuesday called on the opposition, labour unions and civil society to devise an alternative to the junta. "President (Blaise) Compaore asked us to make concrete proposals for...
Tags: Guinean, Burkina Faso, military junta
AU imposes sanctions on Guinea
Conakry :: Guinea | about 1 month ago
Credibility The AU had previously threatened sanctions if Camara, who promised to rein in the army and transfer power to civilian rule through elections, refused to opt out of a poll set for January. A list of persons targeted by the sanctions is to be sent to the...
Tags: Guinea, military junta, France, hunger strike
Guinea under arms embargo after deadly protest
Conakry :: Guinea | about 1 month ago
Credibility W est African leaders said Saturday they are imposing an arms embargo on Guinea after soldiers there fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and will try to stop Guinea's military ruler from running in January's presidential election.
Tags: Guinean, West African States, arms embargo, Moussa Dadis Camara, african leaders, Radio France International, captain moussa, Nigeria, military junta, seized power
Suu Kyi lawyers hopeful for Myanmar appeal
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 months ago
Credibility Lawyers for Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday they were "hoping for the best" as they braced for a court ruling on the Nobel laureate's appeal against her extended house arrest. Judges are set to announce on Friday whether they will...
Tags: US-Burma, Myanmar, Burmese, Kurt Campbell, Aung San Suu Kyi, U.S, assistant secretary, lifting sanctions, East Asia, military junta, Yangon
Myanmar tells ethnic minorities to join elections
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 months ago
Credibility Myanmar's ethnic minorities and their militias should give up their arms and honor past agreements to enter politics, the country's state-controlled media said Thursday. The commentary in the three state-run national newspapers came amid uncertainty over...
Tags: US Myanmar, Myanmar Radio and Television, political prisoners, Burma Centre Prague, humanitarian grounds, announced amnesty, military junta, political detainees, Czech Foreign Ministry, Czech Republic, Myanmar, Yangon
US man wept over Suu Kyi
Yangon :: Myanmar | 3 months ago
Credibility John Yettaw wept "every day" after he was jailed and later freed by Myanmar's military junta for swimming to Aung San Suu Kyi's home, he claimed in an interview broadcast on Thursday. A devout Mormon from Falcon, Missouri, Yettaw had been sentenced to...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Jim Webb, Myanmar, military junta, opposition leader, senator jim
An American Man, His Faith, and His Folly: (On Myanmar & Aung San Suu Kyi)
The American man that decided that he would swim to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi and warn her that she would be assassinated according to a vision he had. This was in May, and he was detained, because Suu Kyi, imprisoned in her home, was not...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Human Rights, John Yettaw, military junta, Myanmar, Nobel Prize Laureate
Aung San Suu Kyi or the Burmese regime
Yangon :: Myanmar | 3 months ago
Credibility As Burmese courts imposed a three-year sentence on Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi today, campaigns launched demanding an investigation into the Burmese military regime for crimes against humanity. “Citizens across the globe are asking world leaders...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Democratic Voice of Burma, Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar, house arrested, military junta, veterans affairs, military spy, Eduardo Ermita, spy chief
Ban reiterates call to release Suu Kyi
Yangon :: Myanmar | 5 months ago
Credibility Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General, ahead of his visit to Burma, on Tuesday reiterated his call to the military junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and to initiate a dialogue between the government and the opposition. Ban, on...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Myanmar, political prisoners, Japan, military junta, including aung, secretary general, NLD, meeting aung
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