Thousands of Guineans demand graft-free vote
Opposition supporters held protests across Guinea on Monday to demand a free and fair parliamentary election, fearing the first such vote in more than a decade will be cheapened by fraud. Opposition supporters protest to demand a free and fair parliamentary election, on the streets of the capital Conakry The May 12 election is intended to be the More...
Guinea’s President Alpha Conde sacked 11 of his government ministers in a surprise cabinet reshuffle announced on state television late on Friday.
The statement from the presidency gave no reason for the shake-up, but the move comes amid heightened tensions in the world’s top supplier of the aluminium ore bauxite over long-delayed parliamentary More...
Guinea oppposition ministers resign over crackdown
Two Guinean opposition ministers have resigned from President Alpha Conde’s government after their party decided to break ties with the ruling party after a violent crackdown of opposition protest. Guinea More...
Boat accident claims 35 lives in Guinea
At least 35 people have been confirmed dead from Guinea’s boat accident near Conakry, local media say. On Friday, an overloaded boat, with about 60 passengers, sank off the coast of Guinea while ferrying More...
Guinea: Risk Or Reward? The Mining Sector And Its Discontents
By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo The arrival in town last week of a delegation of investors who met with Guinean president Alpha Conde is an indication that there is still appetite to invest in the West African nation, More...
Sia Tolno: A new voice from Guinea
By Esther Tola, Conakry: Sia was one of the contestants at the Africa Star Conquest (equivalent to American Idol) in 2008 in Libreville, Gabon. At the time she’d already made quite an impression with her More...
Tony Blair expands his African empire into mineral-rich Guinea
By Robert Mendick Tony Blair has added to his burgeoning African empire. The former prime minister can now count himself as official adviser to the president of Guinea, a hot, steamy republic in west Africa More...