Africa Guinea Ashapura Guinea, a subsidiary of India's Ashapura Minechem Ltd, is working to develop its new mine located in Kindia; the project could transform one of Guinea's most underdeveloped regions creating job opportunities
Africa Guinea The head of the military junta Doumbouya has announced a return to constitutional order by the year 2025, during which a referendum on the new constitution and general elections will be held
Africa Guinea Guinea's active forces, a bloc of political parties and civil society organisations, have announced a series of peaceful demonstrations that they intend to organise from 6 January 2025, calling for the establishment of a civil transition
Africa Guinea Opposition groups are outraged by junta's announcement that the transition to a democratic regime will extend beyond the end of the year; in negotiations with regional bloc ECOWAS, a return to elections and civilian rule within two years had been promised
Africa Guinea 56 people died and dozens were injured Sunday in the stampede that followed clashes after a soccer match played in the town of N'Zérékoré, the country's second largest
Africa Guinea A committee of opposition groups, civil society organisations and activists in Guinea, known as Forces vives, called for the composition of a civil government by 1 January, announcing a new series of demonstrations and civil society mobilisations
Africa Guinea Guinea's Kofi Annan University celebrated the graduation of students in its 23rd year; the class is now named 'Promotion Djiba Diakité', in homage to the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic
Africa Guinea Guinea Alumina Corporation organised an awareness-raising campaign and distribution of school kits in collaboration with the NGO Club des Jeunes Filles Leaders de Guinée to reaffirm commitment to inclusion and equal opportunities
Africa Guinea 53 political parties have been dissolved by the authorities, who have put 54 others under observation; the transitional government has yet to announce a date for elections
Africa Guinea The Bossou Environmental Research Institute recently launched an extensive census campaign of chimpanzees in the Nimba Mountains, in collaboration with American, Swiss and Guinean researchers
Africa Guinea The country was readmitted to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie at its latest extraordinary assembly, three years after Guinea was suspended
Africa Guinea Residents of an area near the Nimba Mountains nature reserve attacked and looted a chimpanzee research centre, destroying and burning equipment, after a woman claimed that one of the animals had killed her son
Africa Guinea A plot of land has been allocated to thousands of people who were forcibly evicted by previous governments, with some victims waiting more than 25 years for compensation