Guinea
Guinea: Election results raise ethnic tensions
December 1, 2011
As soon as Alpha Conde was declared the first democratically elected president of Guinea, violence broke out in pockets of Guinea’s capital, Conakry. The second round election has pitted the country’s largest ethnic groups, Peul and Malinke, against each other. And Conde’s victory has not failed to polarize the country along ethnic lines.
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April 9, 2011
Guinea’s top military officers close to former military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt last year, have been detained at the Matam gendarmerie barracks, in the suburbs of Conakry ahead of the country’s presidential election slated to take place June 27. Members of General Sékouba Konate’s transitional government have decided to clean up after former junta leader Dadis Camara’s rule to ensure a new beginning only two weeks before the presidential elections in Guinea.
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Guinea: The military won’t go unpunished
April 9, 2011
Nouhou Thiam, Chief of General Staff of the Guinean Army announced Wednesday that all soldiers must be held responsible for their acts, especially for last year’s bloody 28 September massacres at the Conakry stadium.
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Guinea holds first democratic elections
April 8, 2011
Guinea is set for its first democratic vote in half a century on Sunday after clashes between rival parties on Thursday left at least one person dead. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has called for “peaceful and credible” presidential elections.
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Guinea: The long wait for election results
April 8, 2011
At fifty-two, Guinea, a novice in what concerns democratic practices, seems to have emerged from Sunday’s first free and independent presidential election unscathed after more then four million voters cast their votes in the West African country. Both the National Electoral Commission and International observers have declared the the process free of any major irregularities.
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Guinea elections: Enraged party to dispute results in court
April 8, 2011
Numerous Sydia Touré supporters gathered Monday in the Guinean capital, Conakry, to protest alleged electoral fraud in the June 27 presidential elections. The Guinean government, having banned demonstrations, immediately dispatched security forces to disperse the demonstrators.
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Guinea military seek to take over power again?
April 7, 2011
In a televised speech broadcast Sunday, Guinea’s Chief of General Staff of the Gendarmerie, Major Ibrahima Balde revealed a planned assassination attempt on the lives of some of the most prominent political leaders. Several officers under the command of a certain senior officer are said to be part of the plot. Some have already been arrested. The country’s transitional Prime Minister, Jean-Marie Dore, has denounced any attempts to destabilize the electoral process.
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Guinea: Court keeps electoral process in check
April 6, 2011
Guinean court has stood firm in its coordination of national elections after it rejected votes from five districts due to severe irregularities feared to breed unrest following the results of a hotly contested June 27 presidential poll.
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Guinea: Radio journalist stabbed by armed men
April 6, 2011
Colleagues of a radio journalist who was attacked by unknown assailants on July 16, 2010 are suspecting the military of being behind the attack.
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Somalia: Military reinforcements from African nations begin
April 5, 2011
AU commission chairman, Jean Ping has said that two African states, Djibouti and Guinea are ready to immediately deploy a battalion each to Mogadishu to boost the meagre African Union peacekeeping force in the Somali capital.
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