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Refugee All Stars Stir Hope From Despair
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
hile the international community has invested Sierra Leone's recovery in trials and tribunals, Sierra Leoneans themselves have relied on family and sheer inner will to rebuild lives devastated by the country's civil ... more
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Liberia to Mediate Between Guinea, S/Lone
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he Liberian Government says it is contemplating dispatching an envoy to neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone shortly to intervene in the on-going border dispute between both ... more
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As Liberians Return Home, UN Agency to Close Regional Office in South
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
lmost 300 Liberian refugees returned home last week from the Kissidougou region of southern Guinea in the final convoy of the United Nations refugee agency's voluntary repatriation programme, setting the stage for the closure later this month of the agency's office in the region after almost two ... more
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UN Refugee Agency Completes Liberian Repatriation Programme in East-Central Guinea
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he United Nations refugee agency today announced the successful conclusion of its 18-year operations in the Kissidougou region of Guinea during which it sheltered tens of thousands of Liberians and Sierra Leoneans fleeing vicious civil wars before assisting their return to their recently pacified ... more
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Unmil Begins Operation 'Seskin-Ii' Today
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he United Missions in Liberia (UNMIL) in collaboration with its Liberian security counterparts will today begin an extended phase of 'Operation Seskin' launched ... more
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Ex-Fighters Regroup in Guinea
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
former executive of the defunct rebel movement, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), Madam Aichia Conneh, has confirmed that ex-fighters of the disbanded rebel group have crossed over from Liberia into neighboring Guinea and are presently occupying several villages and towns in that ... more
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University of Faranah Closed After Soldiers Quell Student Demo
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
he University of Agronomy and Vetinary Science at Faranah in central Guinea has been closed and its 3,600 students have been sent home following two days of protest demonstrations last week which were eventually broken up by the army, university principal Yazou Sorovogui said on ... more
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Good Fences, Good Neighbours
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
uinea's continued occupation of Yenga despite all diplomatic efforts is a clear indication that the Guinean government is not prepared to relinquish the territory to Sierra ... more
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Rebels Blame Deserters for Reported Clash With Guinean Army
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ote d'Ivoire's New Forces rebel movement said on Friday that none of its fighters had been involved in a reported clash with Guinean soldiers on the western border, but it admitted that rebel deserters may have been responsible for the ... more
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Guinea Holding 17 Dissident Rebels After Border Clash
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
uinea is holding captive 17 alleged members of a dissident Ivorian rebel group following a clash with Guinean soldiers on the border with Cote d'Ivoire in which one gunman was killed, security sources ... more
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West African Nation Teetering On the Brink, Says ICG
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ith prices spiralling out of control and the head of state in declining health after 21 years at the helm, Guinea stands on the brink of explosion, diplomats and a leading think-tank warned this ... more
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Soldiers Sent to Quell Ethnic Tension in Kankan
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
he government has sent soldiers to calm inter-ethnic tensions in Kankan, a city 600 km east of the capital Conakry, following the murder of a Malinke (Mandingo) youth in the early hours of Thursday morning, local officials told ... more
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Govt Risks New War
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
iberia risks dragging an entire African region back to war unless the government and foreign donors salvage its ruined economy after postwar elections next month, an independent think-tank said ... more
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Dozens Arrested After Ethnic Clashes in South-East
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ore than 50 people were in custody on Monday following ethnic clashes in the troubled Forest Region of Guinea, an officer involved in the operation ... more
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In Desperate Bid for Jobs, Youths Sign Up As Army 'Volunteers'
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
mployment opportunities for the average young Guinean are limited, particularly in Nzerekore in the rural southeast, where for years thousands of young men operate as "volunteer" soldiers who supply their own uniforms, in the hope of one day getting a real military job and ... more
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Guinea Needs Elections, Not Coups
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
n March, 2006 Guinea Conakry's second president, Lansana Conteh, was flown from Conakry to Geneva, seriously ill. Twenty-two years ago, in March 1984, the first president, Ahmed Sékou Toure, was, similarly ill, and was taken from Conakry to Cleveland, Ohio. He died there, and one week later, a group of... more
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Sub-Regional Arms Project Meeting Kicks-Off Zoby
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
our West African countries implementing the Sub-regional Project on Small Arms and Light Weapons, yesterday started a meeting to assess and evaluate their programme of activities at the Corinthia Atlantic Hotel in ... more
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Conte's Cabinet Reshuffle And the Union Strike Action
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
he Guinean Military Head of State, President Lansana Conte reshuffled his cabinet few weeks back, appointing a longtime trusted aide to the top cabinet post and brought back several of those days ... more
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Strike Violence Spreads Nationwide
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
t least three people were killed in demonstrations against Guinean president Lansana Conte that rocked Conakry and several provincial towns on Wednesday, and a late evening meeting between strike leaders and the president failed to bring an end to the ... more
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Union Leader Vows to Fight On
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
n an exclusive interview, Rabiatou Serah Diallo, leader of one of two main unions behind Guinea's strikes, told IRIN that a march on Wednesday that turned violent was supposed to be peaceful, and blamed the security forces for instigating the violence, but said the unions will not back ... more
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