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A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking.

The junta seized power on the death of their father in December last year, pledging to smash crime rings using Guinea as a hub for drug trafficking toEurope.

By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor The South African government is investigating reports that about 50 South African mercenaries are working for the military junta which seized power in Guinea late last year.

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.

NAIROBI // They started out as peaceful political protests. They turned into bloody riots that drew international scorn.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched an international inquiry headed by an Algerian diplomat to look into a bloody crackdown on protesters in Guinea last month, the United Nations said on Friday.

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.

Guinea's military government has promised to cooperate with a UN inquiry into a bloody crackdown against protesters in the West African country last month, a senior UN official said today.

Amid widespread international condemnation of Guinea's military regime, the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a formal investigation into the September 28th massacre of opposition protestors in Conakry.

Freedom of Speech , Human Rights , Media , Protest , Politics Languages: French Full Category List Excerpt Amid widespread international condemnation of Guinea's military regime, the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a formal investigation into the September 28th massacre of opposition protestors in Conakry.

The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it has launched a preliminary investigation into violence that erupted last month at a sports stadium in the west African nation of Guinea.

'We have no confirmation that among those who were suppressed in the protest on September 28 were former Liberian rebels of Ulimo and the NPFL,' Agenzia Fides was told by sources from the Church in Guinea.

While the rest of the world recoiled in horror at recent events in Guinea, where at least 150 pro-democracy supporters were killed and dozens of women publicly raped by government soldiers, China has sensed an opportunity to steal another march on Western competitors in Africa.

The massacre that the UN and rights group say led to more than 150 deaths occurred September 28 when soldiers opened fire at a crowded stadium in Guinea's capital.

The world has started paying attention to Guinea over the past week, following reports that government soldiers killed and raped scores of civilians at a protest in a soccer stadium in Conakry, the capital.

Guineaa s political crisis following the massacre of at least 130 pro-democracy demonstrators last week may force the countrya s military junta to back off in disputes with mining companies.

Guinea's military junta chief, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, speaks in Conakry. SEYLLOU / AFP / Getty Guinean leader Moussa Dadis Camara was little-known even in his own country before seizing control of the troubled West African nation in December following the death of its longtime dictator.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling violence by Guinea's government "criminality of the greatest degree." Clinton told reporters Tuesday that the government of Capt.

The tragic events of Monday were born of a confrontation between sheer desperation and brute force.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana criticized on Tuesday a violent crackdown on protests by authorities in Guinea that left 157 people dead.