UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)

Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Website: http://www.irinnews.org/


October 22

  • Guinea: Strike Threats Mar Debt Deal

    Trade union leaders in Guinea are contemplating a general strike over salary demands and other grievances, after the government proposed a raise for civil servants far lower than... Read more »



October 1

  • Guinea: 'Fear Has Switched Sides'

    Three years after a stadium massacre in the Guinean capital Conakry in which hundreds of people were killed, injured and raped during a military crackdown on a rally to protest... Read more »



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September 7

  • Guinea: The Missing Parliament

    Guineans are hopeful that the 5 September resignation of the electoral commission president - one of the opposition's principal demands - will break a political impasse and move... Read more »



September 5



September 3

  • Guinea: Between Baby and Breast Milk

    Countless babies in Guinea are not given their first breast milk for hours - however long it takes a designated family member to bring water that is used to rinse special Koranic... Read more »



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December 12, 2011

  • Guinea: Evading the Cholera Epidemic

    With just two cholera cases reported in 2011 Guinea escaped a West and Central Africa-wide cholera epidemic that infected 85,000 people and killed 2,500 in the first ten months of... Read more »



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March 22, 2011

  • Guinea: Obstacles, Omens And Opportunities [analysis]

    Alpha Condé, a former student activist, trade unionist, radical publisher, lecturer, political prisoner and exiled opposition leader, finally took over the presidency of... Read more »

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