Saudi Ambassador to Guinea Amjad bin Hussain Al-Badawi delivered today $ 500.000 as a financial assistance from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the government of Guinea to evacuate its citizens from Libya.
The handover ceremony was attended by a (...)
Heavily armed assailants attacked the residence of Guinean President Alpha Conde early on Tuesday, killing one person while Conde escaped injury and is safe, a presidency source and eyewitnesses said, according to Reuters.
"The president was there, (...)
Guinea's President Alpha Conde has named the country's prime minister.
Mohamed Said Fofana, a former director of economic research, was appointed the West African nation's new prime minister late Friday.
Conde, a 72-year-old Sorbonne university (...)
Guinea's new president, Alpha Conde, began forming his cabinet on Thursday with the nomination of a minister of state and cabinet director, according to an announcement on state television.
Conde won a hotly contested Nov. 7 election billed as the (...)
Guinea must review billions of dollars worth of mining deals signed since a coup in 2008 to make sure the West African state is getting its fair share of revenue, election front-runner Cellou Dallein Diallo said, according to Reuters.
Contracts (...)
Polls have opened in Guinea as the West African nation holds its first free elections since independence more than half a century ago.
On the eve of the ballot, the country's junta leader vowed to ensure fairness and transparency, warning a roomful (...)
Guinea's interim leader Sekouba Konate sacked the heads of the airforce and navy on Thursday in a purge of the West African country's military leadership, Reuters reported.
Konate replaced the head of the armed forces on Wednesday in what observers (...)
Guinea's CBG, the world's top bauxite exporter company, said on Saturday orders for 2010 have already exceeded last year's output by more than 10 percent in a sign of improved global demand for the aluminium ore, according to Reuters.
The company, (...)
Guinea"s ruling military junta has begun talks with opposition parties, Reuters quoted an official as saying on Tuesday after the army backed having a civilian prime minister to lead the unstable West African country to elections.
Last Wednesday (...)
Guinea"s No. 2 leader is going to Senegal for medical treatment, officials said Friday, heightening fears of a power vacuum since the country"s president is already hospitalized in Morocco following an assassination attempt, according to AP.
The (...)
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 on Wednesday, according to (...)
Guinea"s communications minister on Tuesday accused the French secret service of being complicit in an assassination attempt against the West African country"s leader. Former colonial power France called the allegations «absurd rumors,» according to (...)
A government spokesman says that the No. 2 of Guinea"s military junta that grabbed power in a coup last year returned to the country overnight.
Sekouba Konate"s return Saturday helps fill a power vacuum after Capt. Moussa «Dadis» Camara, who (...)
Moussa Dadis Camara, the military leader of the West African nation of Guinea, was shot and wounded in an attack on his presidential convoy, an official said.
His "life is not in any danger," said the regime"s minister of state for presidential (...)
Shooting has erupted again at
military posts across Guinea's capital as the country's
presidential guard barricades the streets and blocks access
to the downtown area that houses the military's
headquarters.
The new round of shooting comes (...)
A member of Guinea's presidential
guard says junior officers angry over unpaid wages are
holding the army's second-ranking official hostage.
The guard and a family member of a high-ranking military
official both confirmed that Mamadou Sampil, (...)
