April 08, 2006
Guinea: Is There a Captain Onboard?
The stakes are high in the current political crisis in the Republic of Guinea, whose people are among the world's poorest. In this part of west Africa, where Liberia and Sierra… Read more »
March 22, 2006
Guinea: No Coups Are Good Coups
Last Saturday, the Republic of Guinea's second president, Lansana Conté, was evacuated from Conakry to Geneva, gravely ill. Twenty-two years ago, in March 1984, the first… Read more »
March 14, 2006
Guinea: Bauxite Investment Spurs West African Hopes
In one of the world's 10 poorest countries, where life expectancy barely exceeds 50 years, where 75 per cent of the women are illiterate, and where almost everyone is unemployed,… Read more »
November 01, 2005
Guinea: Local Residents Place High Hopes on Guinea's New Aluminum Refinery
For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the… Read more »
September 26, 2005
Guinea: Global Alumina Agrees with UNDP to Advance Millennium Goals in Guinea
In the first agreement of its kind in the Republic of Guinea, a public/private partnership pact has been signed between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global… Read more »
July 30, 2003
West Africa: Still No Sign of Peacekeepers for Liberia, Annan Presses Security Council to Act
As desperate Liberians renew their pleas for an international intervention force to step in to end the fighting that has cost hundreds of lives, haggling over the financing for… Read more »
July 23, 2003
Liberia: Taylor Aide Accuses U.S. of Backing Liberia Rebels
The Press Secretary to Liberia's President Charles Taylor told allAfrica.com, Wednesday, that Taylor wants a firm commitment to "a constitutional transition" before stepping aside.… Read more »
March 12, 2003
Africa: Africa Centre Stage as Washington Scrambles for Votes at UN
As the United Nations Security Council debate intensifies on a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, the three African nations on the Council find themselves in the… Read more »
February 26, 2003
Africa: Washington Lobbies for Africa's UN Council Votes
The Bush Administration is pressing African nations to support the impending war with Iraq, and the three African nations on the United Nations Security Council have been targets… Read more »
December 05, 2002
Guinea: "Make Everyone a Part of it": A Winning Strategy for Education in Guinea
Aicha Bah Diallo is dynamic, determined and passionate. Her passion is education. She comes from Guinea-Conakry and is currently a senior official at the United Nations… Read more »
July 15, 2002
West Africa: Attempts to Bring Peace to Liberia - Can They Succeed?
Following Sierra Leone's successful - and peaceful - elections in May, there's increased optimism that life really will return to normal. Yet Sierra Leone is not an island. Even if… Read more »
May 24, 2002
West Africa: Cycle of Conflict in Mano River Threatens S.Leone Peace - Analyst
In the Mano River region of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, armed insurgency has moved from country to country for years, one country's conflict feeding on another's. Most… Read more »
February 27, 2002
West Africa: Morocco Brokers Talks Between Liberia, S.Leone and Guinea
Presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia, Lansana Conté of Guinea and Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone are holding talks in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, to discuss the intertwined… Read more »
March 19, 2001
West Africa: Ambassadors Expelled from Liberia, Gbagbo and Ouattara Meet
The ambassadors of Guinea and Sierra Leone have been ordered out of Liberia by Charles Taylor as border hostilities continue. Read more »
February 12, 2001
Guinea: United Nations Refugee Chief Visits Crisis Area
The newly-appointed United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, arrived over the weekend in Guinea to assess the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees who… Read more »
West Africa: Thousands of Refugees Again Fleeing Attacks in Southwest Guinea
As many as 25,000 people set out on foot from the Nyaedou camp in southwest Guinea over the weekend, headed northwards. An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 refugees who fled Nyaedou have… Read more »
February 09, 2001
Guinea: Thousands Fleeing Guinea Border Area
Thousands of refugees and displaced Guineans are on the move in the southwest region of Guinea following renewed fighting in the town of Gueckedou on Friday. Read more »
February 05, 2001
West Africa: Amputees Find Work, Aid in Sierra Leone
Victims of Sierra Leone's rebel terror campaign are being employeed by international agencies to help care for the flood of refugees returning home from camps in the unstable… Read more »
January 31, 2001
Guinea: Sierra Leone Refugees Face Hard Choices
More than 450,000 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia face life-and-death choices as conflict in their countries continues to spill across borders. Read more »
January 24, 2001
Guinea: "We Want To Go Home" Refugees Beg UNHCR
"We wan go, we wan go" is the chorus of fear and desperation, in adult and children's voices, that rings around Nyaedou Refugee Camp in southwestern Guinea. The refugees want to… Read more »
Guinea: Border Security Worsens, Refugees Trapped In War Zone
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