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Guinean security forces have arrested several civil society leaders ahead of protests against a planned constitutional review that many fear would allow President Alpha Condé to run for a third or even fourth term in office. The Guinean constitution, adopted just nine years ago, limits the president to two five-year terms. Condé’s second term ends […]
US ambassador to Guinea Conakry has said his country will not back President Alpha Conde should he seek a third term in office as rumors in the country point out the Guinean leader is mulling plans to amend the constitution to this end. Speaking last week in “Les Grandes Gueules”, a popular radio show, Dennis […]
Guinea’s Minister of Justice has resigned from his position in protest against President Alpha Conde’s alleged plans to run for a third term after his current tenure ends in 2020. Cheick Sako, in a letter to President Conde, pinned his resignation on his personal stance against a constitutional amendment that will allow the former opposition […]
Sinohydro, the world’s biggest hydroelectric power plant construction company, and the Organization for the Promotion of the Senegal River (OMVS) have been awarded the construction of a hydropower plant in Koukoutamba, Republic of Guinea. The 294 MW Koukoutamba dam will be built in the middle of a newly declared protected area called the Moyen-Bafing National […]
The World football governing body FIFA has sent back Guinea and Lebanon to their own affairs after both countries criticized FIFA’s electronic voting system on June 13 on the unveiling of World Cup 2026 host after both countries complained that their alleged votes for Morocco were rather sent to the United States-Canada-Mexico joint bid, HuffPost […]
An Algerian court Tuesday sentenced several nationals from Liberia, Mali and Guinea for their involvement in espionage operations for Israel, Anadolu Agency reported. A Liberian national of Lebanese origin was handed death sentence. Seven other defendants from Mali and Guinea were given 10 years in jail each for espionage for Israel, the Turkish news agency […]
Following the example of Guinea, Mali has summoned its Ambassador to Algiers to express its rejection of the ill-treatment of Sub-Saharan migrants by Algerian authorities. In total, some 1440 Malians underwent arbitrary expulsions and were abandoned in harsh conditions by Algerian authorities between January and March 2018. In a comment to the BBC, Mali’s Foreign […]
Longstanding friend and ally of Morocco in Africa, President Alpha Conde of Guinea, paid tribute to Morocco on the sidelines of the 30th African Union’s Summit held in Addis Ababa January 28-29. “We are all aware of the role that late king Mohammed V played (in favor of Africa)” and the support that the late […]
Civil society associations in Guinea, Gabon and Niger have urged the African Union to put the issue of the human rights violations by Algerian authorities against Sub-Saharan migrants on the agenda as Algiers continues arbitrary expulsions of would-be migrants who are often abandoned in the desert on the borders with Niger. At a time the […]
President Alpha Condé has recalled Guinea’s Ambassador in Algiers in protest over the inhuman treatment endured by Sub-Saharan migrants in Algeria. The decision by Condé, who is also Chairman of the African Union, will draw attention to the double speak of Algeria, which aspires to have a voice in Africa while mistreating Africans on its […]