Guinea News

The five clean-cut members of Toubab Krewe look like any other indie rock group from North Carolina, but once Justin Perkins swaps his electric guitar for a kora and percussionist Luke Quaranta starts pounding ...

As Chinese president Hu Jintao's special envoy, China's Minister of Land and Resources Xu Shaoshi will attend Guinea's ceremony for its 50th anniversary of independence on Oct.

President G l, Zimbabwe's President Mugabe and Tajik President Rahmanov were among the guests of the Friendship Dinner in New York.

Guinea wants more talks with Rio Tinto about the mining firm's key Simandou iron ore project in the West African country, the prime minister said in comments broadcast on Thursday.

Health leaders meeting here have said that significant progress towards reducing child and maternal mortality is being made in the world's poorest nations.

Armed off-duty police officers in Papua New Guinea allegedly assaulted a couple after one of the officers was bumped into a hotel pool.

The Papua New Guinea Government sees the public service as an obstacle to development and is moving to revamp it.

CONAKRY, 18 September 2008 - Some government health employees returned to work on 18 September after the Federation of Health Workers Union announced the temporary suspension of its most recent 10-day strike .

DAKAR, 29 September 2006 - The UN refugee agency is set to close its office in the Kissidougou region of eastern Guinea on Saturday after having assisted thousands of refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone over ...

CONAKRY, 17 September 2008 - Some 6,300 Sierra Leonean refugees who have been living in Guinea for 20 years will lose their refugee status as of 1 January 2009 according to the UN High Commission for Refugees , ...

From time to time in Papua New Guinea I kept a work diary that was so obsessively on theme that my only reference to Independence Day, Tuesday 16 September 1975, was - Holiday'. But I vividly remember the ...

RAMSI congratulates Papua New Guinea on Their National Day Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands Special Coordinator, Tim George, today congratulated Papua New Guinea on the occasion of its ...

Today is St. George's Cay Day in Belize, commemorating the Battle of St. George's Cay in 1798 in which a handful of locals won against a superior Spanish force.

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka has challenged his political rival John Mwau to honour his pledge and take councillors on a study tour to Dubai.

Yesterday, health care workers in Conakry went on strike for a second day, virtually paralyzing medical services in the capital.

Mamadou Dian Diallo's 16-year-old brother was shot dead when security forces cracked down on youth demonstrators in Conakry, January 2007 CONAKRY, 10 September 2008 - Sporadic youth-led demonstrations have ...

Entering a second day of a near-total work stoppage in and around the capital Conakry, almost all the city's government health care workers continued to refuse to perform most medical services as they hold out ...

Guinea, the world's top bauxite exporter, will speed up a mining-contracts review, the country's finance minister said on Monday, adding that most mining agreements were "not necessarily" in the national ...

A cholera epidemic which has claimed 90 lives to-date in Guinea Bissau, with more than 3,900 people suffering from the disease, is spreading but no new cases have been reported from neighboring Guinea, the WHO ...

Today is Tuesday, September 16, the 260th day of 2008. There are 106 days left in the year.