20120902 AFP About 30 people were believed to have drowned after an overloaded boat sank off the coast of Guinea, as rescue workers said Saturday they had given up hope of finding survivors after an all-night search.
20120902 AFP CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Survivors say at least eight people have died and another 30 are missing after a canoe overloaded with merchandise capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
20120827 AFP Guinea's biggest mining town is stuck in desperate limbo as its key aluminium plant remains shut five months after a pay dispute saw Russian owners abandon their posts for security reasons.
20120815 AFP Guinea's President Alpha Conde has sacked the administrative chiefs of two regions of the west African country after security forces fatally opened fire on protesters.
20120813 AFP Guinean opposition leaders called Sunday for an independent investigation into police violence at recent demonstrations in which at least six people were killed.
20120318 AFP Police used tear gas to break up an opposition rally to call for clean elections in Guinea in July, arresting dozens of people in the capital Saturday.
20120304 AFP Fifty people travelling to a weekly market were killed and 27 others injured when the lorry they were travelling in crashed in eastern Guinea on Saturday, a government statement said.
20120221 AFP Guinea will hold elections in May, more than five months after the originally slated date, with or without the consent of the opposition, the west African country's interior minister told AFP Monday.
20120118 AFP At least one person was killed and some 30 were injured as Guinean soldiers fired on a crowd protesting electricity cuts in the port city of Kamsar north of the capital Conakry, residents and officials said Tuesday.
2012017 AFP Francophonie chief Abdou Diouf Friday deplored a political logjam in Guinea where the government and opposition have been unable to agree on a date for legislative polls to end a period of transition.
20111228 AFP Guinea's government pledged Tuesday to listen to opposition and civil society groups as they seek agreement on when to stage parliamentary elections in the west African country.
20111117 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's president declared late on Tuesday that the date for landmark parliamentary elections should only be set once there is agreement among rival parties on the timing, defusing a row that has already sparked deadly clashes.
20111110 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's government plans to change a number of tax clauses in the West African state's newly adopted mining code after discussions with companies and investors, the mines minister said on Wednesday.
20110928 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Three people died in Guinea on Tuesday, according to hospital and police sources, when security forces used truncheons and tear gas to break up an opposition protest in the capital.
20110912 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea President Alpha Conde said on Sunday he believes the governments of Senegal and Gambia were complicit in a failed attempt to assassinate him in July.
20110911 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's parliament adopted a new mining code that more than doubles the share the West African state can take in mining projects to 35 percent and toughens procedures for acquiring development permits, the government said on Saturday.
20110720 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean President Alpha Conde's guards repelled a second attack on his residence on Tuesday, presidency sources said of a fresh assault which left three dead and came hours after a rocket and gunfire attack by unknown assailants.
20110720 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped two attacks on his residence on Tuesday that killed at least three people and left his home riddled with bullets, in assaults which authorities linked to former senior officers in the army.
20110719 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's President Alpha Conde escaped a sustained rocket and gunfire attack by unknown assailants on his residence on Tuesday that left one person dead and his home riddled with bullet holes.
