Guinea News

“I remember; you commemorate; he just can't get over it.”

WHY DO WE REMEMBER? By Niall Ferguson, a contributing editor of the FT FT November 9 2007 20:48 Every November 11, mysterious public rituals take place in a remarkably large number of countries to mark the ... via Groong Armenian News Network

West Africa is one of two principal routes used by drug traffickers to export South American cocaine to Europe. via Fides News

Cassidy Gold Corp. is pleased to announce updated resource figures for its 100% owned Kouroussa Gold Project in Guinea, West Africa. via Market Wire

“The most important thing to understand at this point is that our niche area is the transform margin play offshore the Republic of Guinea. Over the last three years, this play has resulted in at least 37 new field discoveries offshore West Africa. ”

Based on the work of the company's geoscientists beginning last August, many new technical developments have been uncovered by a process of further seismic interpretation. via PR-inside.com

Tony Schor or Lindsay Kenoe, 847-945-2222 www.investorawareness.com or Roher Public Relations Phillip Bergman, 914-238-2200, ext 302 Vice President Hyperdynamics Corporation announced today that its wholly ... via PR-inside.com

The male squads of Rail and AS Bopp have confirmed their participation in the Zone 2 Preliminaries of the 22nd edition of African Champions Cup for Men to be held in Guinea Conakry from 05th to 10th November ... via Basketball in Africa

“Camp Boiro: parler ou p ©rir”

Controversial former interior minister Alseny Ren © Gomez has recently published a book on his eight years spent in Camp Boiro in Conakry. via News from Guinea and Friends of Guinea

“They were also under a lot of constraints; they were unable to move about and assemble as they wished. As a result they could not mobilise supporters.”

As the latest target date for Guinea's overdue legislative election approaches, Guineans are waiting for the government to declare a new schedule. via AlertNet

“The end product of which was the dehumanisation of its own citizens.”

During his rule, Toure suppressed opposition and free expression A former Guinean minister has launched a book about his ordeal in the country's most infamous prison. via BBC

“Ethiopian troops will not stay in Somalia forever”

A two-day conference for women parliamentarians from Senegal, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau opens in Bissau on Friday to discuss the effects of conflicts and suggest mechanisms to have lasting peace in ... via Panapress

A conman who stole petrol and other goods by playing fake tapes of Guinea's President Lansana Conte supposedly authorising the requisitions was jailed for three years on Friday. via Independent Online

A chronology of key events 1891 - France declares Guinea to be a colony, separate from Senegal. via BBC

“There was an exhausted man who was waving and seven bodies. There was an unbearable stench, they must have been dead six or seven days”

Rescuers have found the bodies of seven African migrants in a boat adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, while almost 50 others are missing from the vessel trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands, Spanish authorities ... via The World from Rabat

“Before, we could go for a week without electricity - ' often even as long as a month. For several weeks now, in many areas the power has been coming on nearly every day at 6pm.”

Residents in the Guinean capital, Conakry, say in some neighbourhoods running water has been available more regularly than in the past CONAKRY, 24 October 2007 - In one of the poorest and most volatile ... via IRIN News

“Around 7pm, everyone rushes to get home. This means anyone who has a business or store in town cannot work past a certain time.”

LABE, 24 October 2007 - "Electricity for all or for nobody", chanted the 1,000 young protestors in Lab ©, central Guinea, as they marched on the town's state electricity office earlier this month, chased ... via IRIN

In a private meeting Mr. Kourouma was formally introduced to Phillip Carter III, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea. via PR-inside.com

“BHP would be the ones that have the most to gain”

Global Alumina Corp. revealed yesterday that it is in talks with a potential buyer , and Jennings Capital analyst Ron Coll thinks one name clearly tops the list: BHP Billiton PLC. via National Post

Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Global Alumina Corp. via Canadian Business Magazine

Young Zebras and Township Rollers left back, Boniface Zolo Makolo faces censure by FIFA following the game against Guinea in Conakry. via Latest News by the Government

“AU/UN hybrid force lacks necessary equipment”

Namibia has deported two US citizens and shut down an American mercenary firm for recruiting Namibians to work as 'security guards' in war torn Iraq and Afghanistan. via Panapress