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Paris-based cable network Canal+ removed Thursday December 7 the Guinean private media Djoma TV and its radio from its channel packages under instruction of the country’s State-run media regulator HAC which deems the media outlet a threat to security. Boubacar Yacine Diallo, Head of the regulator sent an order to cable Wednesday December 6 for […]
Guinea-Bissau’s army announced on Friday (1 December) it had detained the leader of a group of security forces involved in overnight clashes in the capital, during which the latter tried to free a detained opposition minister and a senior state official. Order has been restored in the area near Guinea-Bissau’s presidential palace following an overnight […]
Guinea has announced an investigation into former president Alpha Conde’s alleged involvement in treason, two years after the ex-president was overthrown in a coup by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya’s special army squad in September 2021. Guinea’s public prosecutor reportedly received a letter from Justice Minister Alphonse Wright, requesting that the new authorized investigation look into “alleged […]
Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, head of ruling junta in Guinea, expelled Tuesday November 14 four Army top commanders few days after an attack on the country’s main prison to release former leader Moussa Dadis Camara standing on a trial for a massacre committed on protestors in 2009. A decree signed by Doumbouya announced that Colonel Pépé […]
At least nine people were killed in a heavy gunfire in Guinea during the November 4-5 weekend when heavily armed commandos plucked the country’s ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and three other former officials out of a prison, prompting a successful man hunt. Camara, who was on trial over a 2009 massacre during his presidency, was […]
As many as 34 people dealing with funds in several State entities, including the office of the President, have been banned from leaving the country amid an ongoing investigation into alleged funds embezzlement. Aly Touré, the Prosecutor of the Court for the Repression of Economic and Financial Offenses (CRIEF) has targeted the people in question […]
India has validated exports of rice to seven countries including Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea and Seychelles several months after banning the export of the crop in view of meeting the needs of the domestic market and reducing increasing prices. Per the decision to lift the ban, ‘Sika Finance’ reports, India will send 1.34 million tons […]
Guinea has returned to Organization pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (OMVS), a regional bloc for the development of Senegal River that including Mali, Mauritania and Senegal, after suspending its membership in July 2023, in protest to the neglect of its strategic interests. The country’s interim Prime Minister Bernard Goumou attended the online […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a message of congratulations to President of the Transition, Head of State of Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, on his country’s National Day, wherein he expressed Morocco’s readiness to bolster the brotherly and age-old ties binding the two countries. “I would like to express the high regard I have for […]
As many as 50 African States have sent officials to the third China-Africa Peace and Security Forum taking place in Beijing as part of China’s security cooperation with Africa. An alternative to the US presence in the continent and European influence. Chinese authorities placed the event under the theme: “Implementing the Global Security Initiative [GSI] […]