Guinea has declared a 45-day “health emergency” in five regions of the African country to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola disease.

Guinea's ruling party has won the West African country’s parliamentary elections, which was held on September 28, the electoral commission says.

Guinea's political opposition has called for the invalidation of the results of the country’s parliamentary elections due to alleged fraud and irregularities.

People in the West African nation of Guinea are casting their ballots in the first democratic parliamentary vote since the country’s independence from France in 1958

Violent clashes between Guinea-Conakry opposition protesters and police forces have left a trainee policeman dead and over 50 people wounded in the capital Conakry, ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections.

Violent clashes between Guinea-Conakry opposition protesters and police forces have left a trainee policeman dead and over 50 people wounded in the capital Conakry

Twelve people have been killed in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces in Guinea's capital, Conakry, a government spokesman has said.

Violent clashes have broken out between security forces and opposition activists in the capital city of Guinea-Conakry, leaving over a dozen people injured.

The African Union (AU) has called for restraint and dialogue in the Republic of Guinea as tension prevails on the ground and acts of violence occurred during authorized political demonstrations.

Security forces in Guinea clashed with opposition protesters on Thursday who are opposed to the June date set for legislative elections, leaving at least 15 people wounded, the government said.

Exiled former coup leader Moussa Dadis Camara arrived in Guinea Saturday in the southern town of Nzerekore to attend the funeral of his mother, Guinean officials confirmed.

Thousands of opposition supporters have held a peaceful demonstration in the Guinean capital to call for a free and fair legislative poll in May.

The head of Guinea's armed forces along with 10 other people including five top Guinean military officials have been killed in a plane crash in Liberia.

The former president of Guinea's National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), Lounseny Camara, has been named as the West African country's tourism minister.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — More than $2.4 billion of Guinea's foreign debt is being cancelled in a major boost for the deeply impoverished West African nation whose mineral riches were looted over decades of corrupt dictatorship, government officials said Wednesday.

At least one person has been killed and many more have been injured in ethnic clashes in the Guinean capital Conakry.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — At least one person was killed on Friday, as ethnic riots pitting the Peul and the Malinke, the two largest ethnicities in the country, spread from a market in Conakry, to the suburbs of the Guinean capital, according to witnesses and the Red Cross.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Anti-riot police dispersed protesters in the Medina market of Guinea's capital, after a riot broke out between sellers from the Peul and Malinke ethnic groups, the two largest ethnicities in the country.

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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The Guinean navy is scouring the coast off of Guinea's capital, Conakry, looking for around 36 people still missing after their overloaded canoe capsized in inclement weather.

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Guinean opposition parties said Saturday that at least 120 protesters had been arrested after police clamped down on a banned protest march which sparked clashes in the capital this week.