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Guinea’s President survives attack at his home AP/CONAKRY, Guinea—Guinea’s democratically elected president survived an assassination attempt early Tuesday when gunmen descended on his home, an attack that throws into doubt the political stability of this mineral-rich country with a history of coups. President Alpha Condé later addressed the nation on state radio, saying that his [...]
Guinea’s presidential candidate Conde: “I have won” re-run election By Laurence Boutreux/AFP in Conakry. Deadly violence flared in Guinea hours ahead of results of its first democratic presidential election since independence from France over 50 years ago, as both candidates claimed victory. Veteran opposition leader Alpha Conde, 72, said he had “clearly” won the run-off, [...]
It is the second time the run-off vote has been delayed in the presidential contest between former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, who won 43 percent of the vote in the June 27 first round, against longtime opposition leader Alpha Conde who garnered 18 percent of the vote.
Guinea electoral commission head jailed for fraud in 2010 voting. Special to USAfricaonline.com CONAKRY (AFP) – A court in Guinea has sentenced the head of the electoral commission, Ben Sekou Sylla, to a year in prison for fraud in the first round of the presidential election in June, a prosecutor said Friday. The decision comes [...]
Guinea presidential elections 2nd round: it’s Diallo vs Condé Special to USAfricaonline.com The Supreme Court in Guinea gave the go-ahead for the second round of presidential elections late Tuesday night (September 7, 2010) at a press conference. The landmark elections, seen as Guinea’s first free election since its independence from France in 1958, will see [...]
Guinea presidential run-off election postponed The second round of Guinea’s presidential election, scheduled for July 18, has been postponed to a date yet to be set, an electoral commission official told AFP on Friday in Conakry. “It all depends on the supreme court, but it will no longer be July 18,” said Pathe Dieng, director [...]
Accusations of election fraud emerged in Guineaon Tuesday, a day before the crucial release of preliminary results in the country’s first democratic vote since independence. Sunday’s peaceful election was praised by the international community, who urged vigilance and calm as results are released and the country prepares to close the door on half a century of [...]
Wounded Guinea dictator’s arrival in Burkina Faso fuels speculations, threats Special to USAfricaonline.com The arrival (this week) of Guinea’s wounded military junta leader, Moussa Dadis Camara, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, has driven speculations to a new high among Africans, as well as among the Western world which wants to close his page and keep him [...]
Nigeria is today NOT making a major impact, on its region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa that it was making before. Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?… But I wonder if all this emphasis on Nigeria’s importance creates a tendency to inflate Nigeria’s opinion of its own invulnerability. Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they have – many of which we have talked about: disgraceful lack of infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal with the underlying problems in the Niger Delta, the failure to consolidate democracy – and somehow will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important.
Guinea mayhem was ‘crime against humanity’ by its military rulers, UN report asserts Killings of government opponents by troops in Guinea in September amounted to “crimes against humanity” and the west African country’s military rulers should be held responsible, a UN inquiry panel said Monday. The commission said it was able to confirm the identities [...]
ECOWAS leaders speak up for return to civilian rule in Guinea; says go away to military junta West African leaders have called on the military junta in Guinea to hand back power to civilians amid fears that a power struggle between rival commanders threatens to drag the country into civil war and destabilise the region. [...]
CRISIS IN GUINEA: Assassination attempt by one of his aides in troubled west African country, Guinea’s junta leader Camara ‘critical’; flown to Morocco…. Guinea’s junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who was wounded in an assassination attempt, is in a “difficult but not desperate condition,” the president of Burkina Faso has said. Moussa Dadis Camara, [...]
Rights groups and the United Nations say more than 150 people were killed and women were raped by soldiers in the crackdown. The authorities have given a death toll of 56, while Camara has denied responsibility for the bloodbath.
Camara seized power in December last year after the death of Guinean strongman Lansana Conte, who had ruled the resource-rich country since 1984.
But what is new is that in Guinea, where cell phones are rapidly outnumbering land line phones, the protesters-turned-victims sent out cell phone photos of rapes in progress by uniformed soldiers. The atrocities were broadcast around Guinea, and then around the world—possibly before the violence even ended.
Liberia’s Sirleaf demands ECOWAS meeting on Guinea Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called for “an emergency meeting” of the Economic Community of West African States on the crisis in neighbouring Guinea, the government has said. “The president has sent a letter to the ECOWAS for this sub-regional body to convene an emergency meeting to [...]
The brutal events have drawn international condemnation. Camara said: “Very frankly speaking, I’m very sorry, very sorry….”Even I, as head of state in this very tense situation, cannot claim to be able to control those elements in the military.”
“They were raping women publicly. Soldiers were shooting everywhere and I saw people fall” Mouctar Diallo, opposition activist
