Conakry, Guinea News

Biography Guinea C plays traditional songs from Guinea, West Africa, in a contemporary style.

The UniverSoul Circus comes to town complete with entertaining elephants. When Helene Sano was a baby in Africa, she used to amaze her father by putting her leg around her neck.

Egypt Tuesday once more stated its support for a political settlement between the Sudanese government and rebels in Darfur.

The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the US De partment of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has launched a US$ 1.4 m illion conventional weapons destruction programme, which will also ...

The UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday it is expanding operations in West Africa to feed an extra 1,4-million people in the region hit hard by rising food prices.

The UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday it is expanding operations in West Africa to feed an extra 1,4-million people in the region hit hard by rising food prices.

While doing research on the Liberian orphanage where she adopted her two sons, veterinarian Carolyn Henry came across a photograph she couldn't easily ignore.

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OUAGADOUGOU, 18 July 2008 - The World Food Programme fears up to 75 percent of Burkina Faso's city dwellers may be unable to access adequate food stocks as they struggle to cope with the combined impacts of a ...

Nigerians have been urged to embrace family planning met hods as a way of spacing their children and reducing poverty in line with the Mi l lennium Development Goals , PANA reports from here Friday.

The recent declarations of Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi of Libya, talking of a "plot" aimed at sabotaging the African federal government pr o ject, "are legitimate and well-founded," a Guinean academic, Raymond ...

As the International Crisis Group questions the willingness of the Guinean government to hold elections in 2008 as planned, donors and opposition party members say it is not just political will but practical ...

Iran - Guinea - Mineral Iranian and Guinean Conakry officials inked industrial and mineral cooperation agreements on Thursday.

The election commission is registering people to vote in towns throughout Guinea but analysts fear elections will not take place in 2008 as planned.

Dakar/Brussels, 24 June 2008: Unless all civil society actors, heads of political parties and religious leaders unite in their quest for real change, the Cont © dictatorship will be restored in Guinea.

Food price hikes have hit Guinea's capital Conakry harder than many others in West Africa according to the World Food Programme , while an export ban is preventing rural populations from benefiting from high ...

To access this briefing in French ,A please click here . OVERVIEW The political and economic change Guineans demanded in 2007 at the cost of nearly 200 lives is in jeopardy.

When Jason A. Leckerman was assigned a pro bono asylum case involving a deaf Guinean refugee, the young attorney had no idea what he was in for.

Last week saw two days of clashes between police and soldiers in Conakry. The police went on strike to protest salary arrears.

CONAKRY, 20 June 2008 - Guinean Prime Minister Soar ©, who announced his new cabinet on 19 June, has appeased widespread fears that the new government would feature old ministers chased out of power amid ...