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'The two sides have started talks, but they are ready to play the ethnic card if negotiations fail,' say Fides sources from the Church in Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea where tensions remain high between the military junta led by Moussa Camara Dadis and the opposition, grouped under the name of "Live Forces". This week, talks began ...

Captain Moussa Dadis Camara At mediation talks in neighboring Burkina Faso, Guinea's ruling military says there is no way their current leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, will relinquish his role in a transitional government.

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore posing with Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs James CF Huang in July 2007 during the laying of the first foundation stone of an hospital, in Ouagadougou China's push for political influence and access to the mineral wealth of the African continent has been resisted by some countries such as Burkina Faso ...

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale hit the Ain Defla region, about 150 kilometres west of Algiers, on Monday, seismologists said.

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore has chaired the first day of mediation talks in Ouagadougou between Guinea's military junta and other political groups.

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore will Tuesday mediate talks in the capital Ouagadougou between Guinea's military junta and other political groups.

Guinea's main opposition leaders arrived in Ouagadougou on Sunday for talks with President Blaise Compaore, who is mediating a crisis in Guinea following a September 28 massacre by the army.

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore today started a two-day official visit to Sudan where he will hold talks with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir on Darfur conflict The visit is part of the distinguished relations between the two countries and tends to coordinate between the two sides in the issues of mutual concern," said Haydar ...

Botswana has reiterated its strong condemnation of the September 28 brutal and wanton killings of innocent demonstrators following a military takeover in Conakry, Guinea.

Many residents of Conakry and other Guinean towns stayed at home Wednesday in a quiet protest at the army's massacre of opposition demonstrators exactly a month earlier.

Various youth organizations in Guinea are scheduled to go on a five-day nationwide hunger strike beginning Wednesday to push the country's military leaders to resolve the political crisis.

The participants in the Ouagadougou summit -- who included Burkina President Blaise Compaore, African Union Commissioner Jean Ping and former French President Jacques Chirac -- pose for a group photo At the seventh World Forum on Sustainable Development held in Ouagadougou by the government of Burkina Faso together with the United Nations and the ...

The top United Nations envoy to the Cote d'Ivoire today called on the West African nation to build on momentum towards holding its much-delayed presidential elections, slated for the end of next month.

A proposed international probe into last month's deadly crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea has received the green light from local and regional stakeholders, with the army captain who seized power in a coup d'etat pledging full cooperation, a senior United Nations official reported today.

Guinean police arrest a protester on in front of the biggest stadium in the capital, Conakry during a protest banned by Guinea's ruling junta, 28 Sep 2009 The U.N. Security Council expressed broad support Wednesday for establishing an independent commission of inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations in Guinea last month during an ...

Guinea's isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's massacre of opposition demonstrators, the UN official leading the probe said.

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts, matched in number only by the military coups it has endured, especially during the 1980s.

African leaders attending a climate summit in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, renewed the call on Sunday for climate aid from partners.

An international observer group on Guinea has recommended setting up an international commission of inquiry into last month's crackdown that news reports say claimed more than 150 lives.

Oct. 12, 2009 -- Africa urged the whole world to pool efforts in fighting climate change at the conclusion of a two-day summit hosted by Burkina Faso on Sunday.