UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)

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

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


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March 08

  • Guinea: Violence Mars Political Progress

    Two months ago Guinea was abuzz with talk of a newly launched electoral commission amid signs that the country, without a parliament for five years, was finally moving towards a... Read more »



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December 10, 2012

  • West Africa: Pirates Threaten Region's Shipping

    In July last year President Boni Yayi of Benin sent a worried letter to the UN secretary-general. His country was being threatened by the activities of pirates, who were scaring... Read more »



October 19, 2012

  • 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 01, 2012

  • 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 07, 2012

  • 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 03, 2012

  • Guinea: Breastfeeding Versus Old Wives Tales

    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 »

  • 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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